UPCOMING EVENTS
VIRTUAL Mini-Concert Season
2020-21:
CURRENT FREE VIDEO CONCERT:
22 November, 2020 2:30pm – 29 November, 2020 2:30pm
All FREE concerts first air at 2:30 PM on date of concert through this website and then subsequently on request for a full week.
22 November, 2020
performs Debussy's String Quartet in G Minor
24 January, 2021
presents Piazzolla's The Four Seasons of
Buenos Aires
and
wind quintet performs its Voyager concert,
including music inspired by space travel and
celestial bodies
21 March, 2021
Adrian Daurov
(slated to perform with Euclid Quartet in live 2020-21 CMSU series) plays Max Reger's Suite
for Solo Cello, No. 2 in D Minor, inspired by JS Bach's Suites for Solo Cello
and
presents excerpts from Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, K.452, and Conesson's Techno Parade for flute, clarinet and piano
16 May, 2021
performs Puccini's "Chrysanthemums" and Beethoven's Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2,
one of the Razumovsky Quartets
Questions?
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Resident String Quartet, Indiana University South Bend
Jameson Cooper, violin
Luis Enrique Vargas, viola
Brendan Shea, violin
Jacqueline Choi, cello
Performing:
String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10 Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Animé et très décidé
Assez vif et bien rhythmé
Andantino, doucement expressif
Très modéré; Très mouvementé et avec passion
Euclid Quartet Recordings: Afinat Records, ARTEK Recordings, Centaur Records
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New York, NY 10025 (212) 864-7928
DETAILED NOTES on this string quartet may be found by clicking on the Program Notes file at the top of this page.
BIOGRAPHY 2020-2021 SEASON
Jameson Cooper, violin
Luis Enrique Vargas, viola
Brendan Shea, violin
Jacqueline Choi, cello
Celebrating its 21st anniversary season, the EUCLID QUARTET enjoys one of the most highly
regarded reputations of any chamber ensemble of its generation, with its members’ constituting a multinational mix representing four continents: violinist Jameson Cooper (Great Britain), violinist Brendan Shea (United States), violist Luis Enrique Vargas (Venezuela), cellist Jacqueline Choi (South Korea). Captivating audiences and critics ranging from Carnegie Hall to
school classrooms to radio and television broadcasts, the quartet consistently performs to enthusiastic acclaim throughout the country.
Formed in Ohio in 1998, the Euclid Quartet takes its name from the famous Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, home to a wealth of renowned artistic and cultural institutions. Within three years, the ensemble was awarded the String Quartet Fellowship of the Aspen Music Festival, where it was invited to return for the subsequent summer’s concert season. The quartet was also invited to study with the Emerson String Quartet at the Carnegie Hall ProfessionalTraining Workshop.
Highlights of the Euclid Quartet’s career include significant global recognition as the first American string quartet to be awarded a top prize at the prestigious Osaka International
Chamber Music Competition. Prior to its Japanese laurels, the quartet also won awards in
numerous United States competitions, including the Hugo Kauder International Competition for String Quartets, The Carmel Chamber Music Competition and the Chamber Music Yellow Springs
Competition. In 2009, the Euclid Quartet was awarded the esteemed “American Masterpieces”
grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Euclid is a frequent guest ensemble at American and Canadian music festivals, among them
those of Aspen, Great Lakes, Kent/Blossom, Mostly Modern and Orford, while expanded programs have included collaborations with internationally renowned artists, including Adrian
Daurov, James Dunham, Gregory Fulkerson, Warren Jones, Paul Katz, Joseph Silverstein and
Alexander Toradze.
In 2007, the Euclid Quartet was appointed to the prestigious string quartet residency at
Indiana University South Bend, where its members teach private lessons and coach chamber
music. Passionately devoted to presenting the highest quality chamber music to young audiences, these seasoned teaching artists have performed for thousands and thousands of students and young adults, in part through support from the National Endowment for the Arts and collaborations with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and the Fischoff National Chamber
Music Association.
Active in the recording studio, the Euclid Quartet issued a pair of CDs, comprising the six string quartets of Béla Bartók on Artek Recordings. The American Record Guide raved about these discs, “rarely has a group found such meaning and vision.” Their debut CD, on Centaur records, features the first four quartets of Hugo Kauder, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who fled to the United States in the 1940s; he defied the atonal trend of his generation with his
uniquely harmonic, contrapuntal style. The ensemble’s most recent CD, “American Quartets: Antonín Dvorák & Wynton Marsalis,” comprised of Dvorák’s String Quartet #12 (“American”)
and Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls - String Quartet #1, was released by Afinat Records in the
fall of 2017.
UPCOMING LIVE, IN PERSON CONCERT SERIES 2021-22
We are delighted to report that our lineup of groups previously engaged for 2020-21 have agreed to perform for us in 2021-22. Here they are, listed for you with the programs they propose to play. Dates of concerts will be included as they are determined.
“Her Voice”
Farrenc: Piano Trio in E flat Major, Op. 33
Beach: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 150
Chaminade: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11
Higdon: Piano Trio
Reicha: Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 88, No. 2, Finale
Beethoven: Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 4
Eryilmaz: Raki Havasi
Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from a Trip to the Moon
Debussy: Clair de Lune
Mellits: Apollo
Berlin Counterpoint
12 February 2022
“Fun, Mockery and Schadenfreude”
Srauss, ˆDie FledermausˆOverture
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds, Op. 100
Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat Major, Op. 16
Strauss, Richard: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
with Adrian Daurov, cello
Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, Op. Posth. 163, D. 956
Shanghai Quartet
24 April 2022
“True Inspirations”
Bartok: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 7
Long: Song of the Ch'in
Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27
All live concerts held on Sundays at 2:30 PM
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Sinnott Family Bank of Utica Auditorium
310 Genesee Street, Utica NY 13502
This concert series is made possible in part by
the New York State Council on the Arts, with
the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature.
