Issued by: Ellen Ash
414-229-5714
ash@uwm.edu
Date: Aug. 19. 2002
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Issued by: Ellen Ash Date: Aug. 19. 2002 |
MILWAUKEE
- The Fine Arts Quartet, artists-in-residence at UWM's Peck School of the Arts,
will present four Sunday afternoon concerts in 2002-2003 in UWM's newest venue,
the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd.
The Quartet will perform an adventurous mix of familiar and lesser-known works including late 20th century pieces by composers Wolfgang Rihm and Philip Glass (please see Fact Sheet for details). Tickets are available by phone, mail or in person through the UWM Peck School of the Arts Box Office, 414-229-4308. Four-concert subscriptions are available for $54 and single tickets go on sale September 3.
As appreciative audiences learned this summer during "Summer Evenings of Music," the newly renovated Helen Bader Concert Hall, with its excellent acoustics and beautiful surroundings, is the perfect venue for the Fine Arts Quartet. New box office facilities in the Zelazo Center's lower level, including limited free parking for those purchasing tickets in advance, and free parking behind the Center on Sundays, make the Zelazo Center and its new concert hall a premiere destination for chamber music lovers.
As in past seasons, the Quartet will be joined this season by several stellar guests. Ralph Evans (violin), Efim Boico (violin), Yuri Gandelsman (viola), and Wolfgang Laufer (cello), will share their first three concerts with noted guest artists Peter Frankl, Karl-Heinz Steffens, and Joseph Kalichstein. Frankl, a visiting professor of piano at Yale University School of Music, has performed with orchestras and conductors throughout the world. He will perform a program of piano solos by Kodály and Léo Weiner and will join the Quartet for two Dohnányi piano quintets in October. In November, Steffens, principal clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic, will perform clarinet solos by Rihm and Reger's Clarinet Quintet. Kalichstein, the pianist of the famed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, will perform the Schumann Piano Quintet with the Quartet in February. The final concert of the season will pair the more familiar Bruckner Quartet in C Minor and Schubert's Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden) with contemporary composer Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 2.
Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success, an extensive recording legacy, and an astonishing durability. The Quartet, whose members are artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is among the elite few to have toured internationally since the end of World War II, passing the milestone of a half-century of uninterrupted existence with remarkably few changes in personnel. Beginning in the 1970's, the original Quartet members were gradually succeeded upon their retirement by brilliant new artists: Ralph Evans, a prize winner in the International Tchaikovsky Competition; Efim Boico, former concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris and member of the Tel Aviv Quartet; Wolfgang Laufer, former principal cellist of the Hamburg Philharmonic and Jerusalem Radio Orchestra; and newest member of the quartet, Yuri Gandelsman, the former principal violist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Tickets: Four-concert subscription: $54.
Single tickets: $16 general admission/$9 students & seniors (go on sale Sept. 3).
Please call (414) 229-4308 or stop by the Box Office now located in the Zelazo Center. Summer Box Office hours: 12 noon - 4 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances. After September 3 the Box Office will be open from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Short-term parking spaces are available for those purchasing tickets.
Parking: Ample free parking is available on Sundays in the Zelazo Center lot and in the UWM Union Parking Garage, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd.
Piano solos:
Kodaly: Meditations sur un motif de Debussy
Il pleut dans la ville Op.11/3
Complainte de Transilvanie Op.11/2
Leo Weiner: 3 Hungarian Rural Dances
Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No.2 (1914)
Guest Artist: Joseph Kalichstein
Hugo Wolf Quartet in D Minor (1878-84)
Schumann Piano Quintet (1842)
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