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Chamber Music Sedona Presents the Tokyo String Quartet
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Chamber Music Sedona proudly presents the Tokyo String Quartet. The concert will be held on Sunday, March 25, 2010, beginning at 2:30 p.m., at the Sedona United Methodist Church. The Tokyo String Quartet (TSQ) has captivated audiences and critics alike since it was founded in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. Regarded as one of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the TSQ, violinists Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda, violist Kazuhide Isomura and cellist Clive Greensmith has collaborated with a remarkable array of artists and composers, built a comprehensive catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings and established a distinguished teaching record. Performing over a hundred concerts worldwide each season, the Tokyo String Quartet has a devoted international following that includes the major capitals of the world and extends to all four. Across the U.S., internationally renowned violinist Midori invites the quartet to a week-long residency at the University of Southern California, Arizona State University hosts the quartet in three separate residencies, and the ensemble returns to the Cleveland Institute of Music to teach and perform at the Chamber Music Festival. Deeply committed to coaching young string quartets, the quartet devotes much of the summer to the prestigious Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, having served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music as quartet-in-residence since 1976. The TSQ also attended the La Jolla SummerFest 2008, and in July 2009, they will teach and perform at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. The TSQ has released more than 40 landmark recordings on BMG/RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel-EMI, CBS Masterworks, Deutsche Grammophon and Vox Cum Laude, including the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert and Bartók. The quartet's recordings of Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák, Haydn, Mozart, Ravel and Schubert have earned such honors as the Grand Prix du Disque Montreux, "Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year" awards from both Stereo Review and Gramophone magazines and seven Grammy nominations. Following the highly praised recordings of Beethoven's Opps. 59 and 18 string quartets on the Harmonia Mundi label, the ensemble in an ongoing collaboration will release Beethoven's Op. 74 and Op. 95 quartets with Harmonia Mundi this winter. The late quartets, which follow next season, will complete the entire cycle. Also on the horizon is the release of a disc featuring works by Dvorák and Smetana. The TSQ has been featured on numerous television programs, including "Sesame Street," "CBS Sunday Morning," PBS's "Great Performances," "CNN This Morning" and a national television broadcast from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as on the soundtrack for the Sidney Lumet film Critical Care, starring Kyra Sedgwick and James Spader. The ensemble performs on the "Paganini Quartet", a group of renowned Stradivarius instruments named for legendary virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who acquired and played them during the 19th century. The instruments have been on loan to the ensemble from the Nippon Music Foundation since 1995. The TSQ traces its origins to the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, where the founding members were profoundly influenced by Professor Hideo Saito. Instilled with a deep commitment to chamber music, the original members of what would become the Tokyo String Quartet eventually came to America for further study with Robert Mann, Raphael Hillyer and Claus Adam. Soon after its formation, the quartet won First Prize at the Coleman Competition, the Munich Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. An exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon firmly established it as one of the world's leading quartets. 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: Next: Sedona Bluegrass Festival 2010, May 9. 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: Sedona United Methodist Church, 110 Indian Cliffs 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.) |
