Linden String Quartet and Michael Brown team up for performance at Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Linden String Quartet and pianist Michael Brown will perform March 3 in Purdue University's Loeb Playhouse.
The 8 p.m. performance is presented by Purdue Convocations.
This "laureate concert" will feature two recent winners of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. The Linden String Quartet, currently the graduate string quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, has been praised for its "remarkable depth of technique and brilliantly nuanced, sumptuous tonality … delivered with a palpable, infectious joy." The quartet - Sarah McElravy and Catherine Cosbey, violin; Eric Wong, viola; and Felix Umansky, cello - also is the gold medalist and grand-prize winner of the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Pianist and composer Michael Brown, hailed as a "vividly characterized" and "free-spirited" player by The New York Times, is a two-time winner of the Juilliard School's Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation Competition. He also has won the Juilliard Concerto and Munz competitions, as well as the Raeburn Award for artist of special promise at the 2009 Honens Competition. This shared program will feature dynamic solo-piano and string-quartet repertoire, as well as a special combined performance of the Piano Quintet by Robert Schumann.
The program will include:
* Claude Debussy - La Puerto del Vino ("from Preludes, Book 2")
* Maurice Ravel - Habañera
*Debussy - La Soirée dans Grenade ("from Estampes")
* Ravel - Alborada del gracioso ("from Miroirs")
* Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 5
* Robert Schumann - Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
All tickets are $14 and are available at the Elliott Hall and Stewart Center box offices at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster outlets.
Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations is among the oldest collegiate professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 20 to 30 performances of widely varying genres.
Contact: Abby Eddy, 765-494-5045, aeeddy@purdue.edu