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Tokyo String Quartet
The Marine Biological Laboratory presents the 2003 Chamber Music Concert featuring the Tokyo String Quartet
Sunday, July 13 - 7:00 pm - Lillie Auditorium
"If the Tokyo String Quartet isn't the world's greatest chamber music ensemble, it's hard to imagine which group is."
- The Washington Post
The 2003 Chamber Music Concert will again honor the MBL’s summer research fellows. Contributions to the program will help support next year’s fellows.
Concert Program:
- Beethoven String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18, No. 2
- Janacek String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"
- Intermission
- Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10A
Candlelight Dinner will follow the concert on the Swope Center Terrace. This year's menu includes:
- chilled cucumber/dill soup
- choice of teriyaki seafood trilogy (shrimp, lobster, and scallops) served over crispy leeks with wild lemon rice, or penne with artichoke hearts, pinenuts, and sun-dried tomatoes in a light alfredo cream sauce
- lemon-lime cheesecake
- Wine will be served with dinner
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The Tokyo String Quartet has captivated audiences and critics alike since it was founded more than thirty years ago at the Juilliard School of Music. One of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the Quartet is comprised of violist Kazuhide Isomura, a founding member of the group, second violinist Kikuei Ikeda, who joined the ensemble in 1974, cellist Clive Greensmith, formerly Principal Cellist of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who joined in 1999, and first violinist Martin Beaver who joined the ensemble in 2002.
For the 2002-2003 season, the Tokyo String Quartet performs with pianist Alicia de Larrocha at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD. The Quartet also tours with pianist Max Levinson to Boston, Atlanta, Berkeley, Orange County, CA, and the Krannert Center in Urbana, IL. Other U.S. performances include Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, the Caramoor Festival, and New York’s Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd St. Y. Internationally, the Quartet appears in Milan, Paris, Amsterdam, Beijing, Sydney, Istanbul, Toronto, Lisbon, Valencia, Madrid, London, Ljubljana, Berlin, San Miguel de Allende, and Dijon. The members of the Tokyo String Quartet have served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music since 1976 as quartet-in-residence. Deeply committed to teaching young string quartets, they devote a considerable amount of time at Yale during the academic year, and at the prestigious Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the summer. They also regularly participate in masterclasses throughout North America.
The Tokyo String Quartet has released more than 30 landmark recordings, including the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, and Bartók. The Quartet’s recordings of Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák, Haydn, Mozart, Ravel, and Schubert have earned numerous honors, including seven Grammy nominations. The Tokyo String Quartet has also been featured on PBS’s Sesame Street and Great Performances, and CNN’s This Morning.
The Quartet 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 loaned to the ensemble by the Nippon Music Foundation since 1995.
Ticket Information
Tickets are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Click here to download an order form.
For more information call: (508) 289-7423. (No telephone reservations, please.)
Rush student tickets may be available for $10 the week before the concert. However, we cannot guarantee availability.
The MBL is a non-profit organization. All contributions to the Scholars and Fellows Program are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Concert and dinner tickets are not tax-deductible.
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