VIANO STRING QUARTET*

Mann series - November 5, 2022

7:30pm at WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL

*ON 11/4/2022 WE LEARNED THAT A MEMBER OF THE DOVER QUARTET HAS FALLEN ILL, AND WE HAVE TO POSTPONE THEIR PERFORMANCE TO NEXT SEASON. THANKFULLY, THE MARVELOUS VIANO STRING QUARTET (THAT HAS MADE WAVES AT THE SCHNEIDER SERIES AND MORE RECENTLY AT WIGMORE HALL) WILL STEP IN FOR THE INDISPOSED DOVER WITH A FANTASTIC PROGRAM OF HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN, AND GRIEG.

Program:

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
String Quartet No. 60 in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1 (1797-8)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809 – 1847)
String Quartet No. 2 in a Minor, Op. 13 (1830)

~ intermission ~

EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907)
String Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op. 27 (1878)

BIO:

Praised for their “virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention”(Boston Globe), the VIANO STRING QUARTET are First Prize winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where they were Ensemble-in-Residence through the 2020-21 season, the quartet has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Place Flagey, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The quartet is in residence at the Curtis Institute of Music as well as Meadows School of Music at the Southern Methodist University through the 2022-23 season. Summer of 2022 brings re-invitations to Great Lakes and Rockport Music Festivals, as well as performances at Chamber Music Northwest (Protégé Project 3-week residency), Tannery Pond under the auspice of Capitol Region Classical, Victoria Summer Music Festival, Bard Music Festival finished with a residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In the fall Viano will be making their Lucerne Festival and Wigmore Hall debuts followed by performances in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Delaware, Tennessee, Washington DC and Canada. March 2023 marks the beginning of their three year residency with Music in the Morning in Vancouver where they will create programming to include artist collaborations, extensive community engagement and masterclasses.

Recent highlights include performances on three continents, including debuts in Berlin, Paris, Bremen, Brussels, Vancouver, and Beijing, among other cities. They have collaborated with world-class musicians such as pianists Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin and Elisso Virsaladze, violists Paul Coletti and Paul Neubauer, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, vocalist Hila Plitmann and clarinetist David Shifrin. The quartet achieved incredible success in their formative years, with an unbroken streak of top prizes at Osaka, Fischoff, Wigmore Hall, Yellow Springs and ENKOR chamber music competitions. The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano”.

For more about the Viano String Quartet, visit vianostringquartet.com.

Countless thanks for getting us back to the Washington Irving Campus, our cherished home since 1914, go to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine and his office, to the good folks at the Department of Education and to our friend at Washington Irving, Cameron Jones.

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Viano String Quartet is represented by Opus 3 Artists.