Residency Recital: Vera Quartet with Roberto Díaz

  • Nov 1, 2019 @ 8:00 P.M.

The Vera Quartet, Curtis’s string quartet in residence, presents a residency recital as part of the Student Recital Series. The quartet is joined by Roberto Díaz, president and CEO of Curtis, to finish the program with Mendelssohn’s Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87.  The performance is free and no tickets are required.

 

SCHUBERT Allegro, from Quartet in D minor, D. 810 (“Der Tod und das Mädchen”)
SCHNITTKE Andante, from Quartet No. 3
AUERBACH

“Si vis pacem, para bellum,” 
from Sonnet for String Quartet No. 3 (“Cetera desunt”)
BEETHOVEN Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 (“Quartetto serioso”)
WHITTALL Quartet No. 2 (“Bright Ferment”)
  Vera Quartet
   
MENDELSSOHN       Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87
  Vera Quartet
 

Roberto Díaz, viola

 

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This concert will be streamed live through YouTube.


The Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet Program admits young quartets of extraordinary promise who have clear aspirations for a career as a professional quartet and demonstrate an affinity for Curtis’s “learn by doing” approach to artistic development.