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Chamber Music Sedona Presents the Fry Street Quartet
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Chamber Music Sedona proudly presents the Fry Street Quartet. The concert will be held on Sunday, March 7, 2010, beginning at 2:30 p.m., at the St. John Vianney Church. The Residency is March 4-7. Hailed as “a triumph of ensemble playing” (New York Times), the Fry Street Quartet (FSQ) has perfected a “blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity” (Strad). Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the FSQ has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall (via rural North Carolina) to Sarajevo and Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with “profound understanding, …depth of expression, and stunning technical astuteness” (Deseret Morning News). The Fry began its international career as cultural ambassadors with a tour of the Balkan States, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State. Programming for the American-themed tour featured the European debut of J. Mark Scearce’s ‘Y2K’, commissioned for the FSQ with a grant from Meet the Composer. Subsequent international appearances have included the ProQuartet Academy at Pont-Royal, France, the Prague Chamber Festival and Trutnov Autumn Festival in the Czech Republic and the Mozart Gemeinde Series in Austria. “Equally at home in the classic repertoire of Mozart and Beethoven or of contemporary music” (Palm Beach Daily News), the quartet recently debuted its innovative “From Prodigy to Master” series, pairing early and late works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Mendelssohn with engaging modern compositions inspired by the featured “masters” of the quartet genre. Modern works include the lesser-known complete string quartets of Benjamin Britten, as well as a world premiere of “st qt,” dedicated to the FSQ by Thomas McFaul, a composer known throughout the world for his instantly-recognizable “Meow Mix” advertising jingle. The series provides a unique and intimate setting for concert-goers, with lectures, discussions, and audience involvement. In collaboration with cutting-edge sound designers Ray Kimber and Graemme Brown, the FSQ’s fourth and fifth commercial recordings present early and late quartets of Haydn and Beethoven in audiophile recording quality that utilizes revolutionary and SACD technology. The Fry’s collaborations include those with pianists Misha Dichter, Wu Han and Joseph Kalichstein, and with Cleveland Quartet founding cellist Paul Katz. Other collaborations include performances with the Mendelssohn String Quartet at the 92nd St. Y, and with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Ursula Oppens, violinist Nurit Pacht, and soprano Toni Arnold as the quartet in residence with New York City’s Alliance Français. The FSQ enjoys frequent visits to Harrisburg, PA, as Market Square’s “Summermusic” Artists-in-Residence, and the Mozart Gemeinde chamber music series in Austria, where they have recently forged an exchange relationship between the University of Carinthia in Klagenfurt and Utah State University. Recipients of a three-year “Rural Residencies” grant from the NEA and Chamber Music America, the Fry fast became an integral part of cultural life in the small town of Hickory, North Carolina, while living, rehearsing, teaching, and performing more than 100 outreach concerts per year. During their tenure, the chamber music audience in Hickory jumped from 25 to over 300, and the elementary orchestra program more than doubled its enrollment. The quartet was instrumental in establishing a graduate string quartet program at Appalachian State University and designed an innovative middle school “Chamber Music Mentoring Program,” which drew public school children into the arts by teaching them to rehearse and perform string quartets. The FSQ’s legacy remains in Hickory; as a result of their highly successful residency, the community has privately funded an ongoing quartet residency, embracing chamber music as an essential part of life in their small town. The FSQ is Faculty Quartet in Residence at the Caine School of the Arts at Utah State University. In recognition of their fine work at Utah State, the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation has awarded the FSQ with the prestigious Caine Young Scholars Award, which provides substantial funding to promote teaching, research, and community outreach related to the fine arts. Fry Street Quartet Performance: Beethoven: Quartet Op. 18, No. 6 Barber: Quartet Beethoven: Quartet Op. 131 General admission tickets are $25 and reserved seats $40 and may be purchased by calling Chamber Music Sedona at 928.204.2415. Tickets are available by calling 928.204.2415 or at the following outlets: Bashas’ in Sedona Rycus’ Corners in the Village of Oak Creek Arizona Music Pro and Cedar Music in Flagstaff Planet Video and Music in Cottonwood Think For Ink in Prescott Coming next: Tokyo String Quartet, March 28. For more information call 928.204.2415, email SedonaCMS@aol.com, or visit www.ChamberMusicSedona.org. |
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When: 2:30 PM Where: St. John Vianney Church, 180 Soldiers Pass Road, Sedona Phone: 928.204.2415 Contact: www.ChamberMusicSedona.org Don't keep it to yourself. Tell everyone you know! Subscribe now! Get Sedona news and events delivered right to your email. (Your privacy is protected. No spam ever, and you can unsubscribe at any time.) |
