Afiara String Quartet

January 13, 2011
7:30 pm	to	9:30 pm

The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet, the graduate resident string quartet at The Juilliard School in New York, offers performances of “startling intensity” with a “powerful, keen-edged collective sound” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, 2^nd prize at the Munich ARD International Competition, and the 2010 Young Canadian Musicians Award, the Afiara balances a lively interest in new works with deep insight into core classical repertoire.

Formed in 2006, the Afiara String Quartet takes its name from the Spanish fiar, meaning “to trust”, a basic element vital to the depth and joy of its music-making.

In the 2010/11 season, the Afiara String Quartet performs throughout North America and internationally, with dates in New York City at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and for the Americas Society; at the Kennedy Center for both the Mendelssohn Octet with the Juilliard String Quartet and then presented in concert by the Washington Performing Arts Society; at Las Cruces Concerts in New Mexico; Vancouver’s Music in the Morning; in São Paulo, Brazil; at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; throughout Denmark and elsewhere. They make a studio recording at the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich, and return to the Glenn Gould School at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music as Visiting-Quartet-in-Residence.

The Quartet’s program in Lake Wales is an exciting mix of the traditional and contemporary.  Along with the classic quartets of Haydn and Beethoven, the Quartet will play two short pieces especially commissioned for them by The Banff Centre in Canada and the Common Sense Composers Collective.  John Halle’s 7-minute “Sphere(‘)s”  is based on “Straight No Chaser,” first recorded in 1951 by Thelonious Monk.

Program:
Franz Josef Haydn – String Quartet No. 25 in C major, Op.20, No.2
John Halle – “Sphere(‘)s”
Dan Becker – Lockdown
~ Intermission ~
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 (Razumovsky Quartets), No. 1

Listen to the Afiara String Quartet play the Allegro movement from Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18: 01 Beethoven SQ #7, 4. Allegro

Updike Hall.

Tickets: $20 members; $25 non-members.
Students with ID: $5.00

Season subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now.

This performance is sponsored in part by:
     Ms. Nancy Hale Hoyt
     Mr. Milford Myhre

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