Serafin String Quartet Sample Programs 2018-2019
(actual program availability may vary)
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| I. |
String Quartet K. ("Hunt") |
W.A. Mozart |
| String Quartet No. 7 |
Dimitri Shostakovich |
| String Quartet in A Minor |
Johannes Brahms |
| II. |
String Quartet Op. 74, No. 3 ("Rider") |
Franz Joseph Haydn |
| Panamanian Dances |
William Grant Still |
| String Quartet Op. 44, No. 2 |
Felix Mendelssohn |
| III. |
Intimate Voices |
Hugo Wolf |
| Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet |
Ernst Chausson |
| IV. |
String Quartet Op. 18, No. 2 |
Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| String Quartet No. 3 |
Bela Bartok |
| String Quartet Op. 132 |
Ludwig Van Beethoven |
| V. |
Collage Concerts (~1 hour performance for classical and non-classical listeners; various themes
and remarks by the performers). Examples include Intimate Letters (with actor: works by Sibelius,
Mozart, Janácek, with readings and poetry; Arabian Nights and the Magic of Borodin!
(Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Major); Viennese Classical Roots (A Mozart Quartet and movements
from Haydn and Beethoven); Quartet Time Machine (various selections from Haydn to contemporary composers);
and Musical Postcards (various selections).
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Serafin String Quartet performs standard works including those by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,
Brahms, Schubert, Borodin, Dvořák, Schumann, Shostakovich, Debussy, Ravel, and others. In addition, the Quartet
performs works by living composers such as Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Winner, Jennifer Higdon, Andrew Norman,
and Julia Adolphe, and collaborative works by Brahms, Schumann, Dohnanyi, Dvořák, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
Chausson, and others.
The Quartet collaborates often with internationally acclaimed colleagues and has recently performed with
pianists Charles Abramovic, Hugh Sung, Sandra Rivers, Victor Santiago Asuncion, William Ransom, cellist Norman
Fischer, violist Steven Tenenbom, clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt, and with bass/baritone Grant Youngblood.
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