Concerts THE ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET Friday, April 17 7:30 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm) Tickets: $35 / Members $30 Valet Parking: $7. Free Street Parking. For reservations, call 202-338-3552. A light reception with the musicians will follow the concert. Having walked on stage together over 1900 times in the past nineteen years, the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) has established itself among the chamber ensembles of its generation. In 1992, they won both the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions, launching them on a performing career that has brought them across North and South America, Europe and Asia. The foursome regularly delivers traditional quartet repertoire, but is also fervently committed to performing and expanding the works of living composers. The SLSQ players maintain a strong desire to share the wonders of chamber music with their listeners, a characteristic that has led them to a more informal performance style than one might expect from chamber musicians. Alex Ross of The New Yorker Magazine wrote, “The St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection.” PROGRAM Joseph Haydn – Quartet in Eb-Major, Op. 9, No. 2 Paul Hindemith – Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 Felix Mendelssohn – Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80   THE ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET MASTER CLASS Friday, April 17 3 - 4 pm Tickets: FREE For reservations, call 202-338-3552. The public has an opportunity to hear talented young quartets from the greater Washington area perform for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, followed by a discussion of technique and interpretation. The audience will be invited to question and comment.

Special Concert Featuring Award-Winning Student Ambassadors from the Music Institute of Chicago

Thursday, March 26
4 - 5 pm

Tickets: FREE
For reservations, call 202-337-3050 x10.

Back (l to r): Vincent Meklis, Matthew Lipman, Andrea Jarrett, Gabriel Cabezas
Front (l to r): Paul Juhn, Kate Liu. Photo by Mike Canale.

The Kreeger Museum is proud to be a host venue on the spring 2009 performance tour, featuring selected students from the Music Institute of Chicago’s (MIC) prestigious Academy program. The tour includes performances at Carnegie Hall and the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

For further information on MIC, its programs, staff and cultural events, please visit www.musicinst.org.

The tour includes:

Quartet Polaris – Gold Medal winners of the 2008 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition (Junior Division)

Gabriel Cabezas, cello – 2007-08 Second Prize winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions and 2008 winner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions

Matthew Lipman, viola – 2007 First Place winner of the Society of American Musicians Solo Competition and recipient of From the Top’s 2007 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award

Paul Juhn, piano – 2007 winner of the Steinway Young Artist Competition

Kate Liu, piano – selected by renowned pianist Lang Lang to perform Schubert’s Fantasy with him in two Chicago Symphony Orchestra series concerts in November 2008

PROGRAM

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Sonata in g minor, Op. 19, Allegro mosso
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev - Islamey
Franz Waxman - Carment Fantasie
Giacomo Puccini - Chrysanthemums
Bela Bartok - Quartet No. 4, Allegro molto