ESPRESSIVO!
Piano Quartet
Anna Polonsky, Jaime Laredo,
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt,
Sharon Robinson
arens series
saturday, december 16 at 7:30 PM at washington irving
VIRTUAL CONCERT RELEASED ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 18
PROGRAM:
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet in c minor, Op. 1
Brahms: Piano Quartet in c minor, Op. 60
~ intermission ~
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
ESPRESSIVO! Piano Quartet
Anna Polonsky, piano
Jaime Laredo, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Sharon Robinson, cello
Bio:
Four great artists with a passion for chamber music have formed an exciting new quartet that is bound to become an audience favorite. Each of them is known for wonderfully expressive playing, so it seemed that ESPRESSIVO! was the perfect name for this new quartet of piano and strings.
For decades, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, together with their piano trio partner the late Joseph Kalichstein, were considered "chamber music royalty" (Washington Post), a term that applies equally to their ESPRESSIVO! partners - the stellar violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt (formerly of the Dover Quartet) and award-winning pianist Anna Polonsky, one of chamber music's most sought-after partners.
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Photo credits: Christian Steiner (Polonsky, Laredo, Robinson) and Roy Cox (Pajaro-van de Stadt)