BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:583@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270307T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270307T160000 DTSTAMP:20261020T221810Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/american-string-quartet/ SUMMARY:American String Quartet\, Chamber Music at the Clark DESCRIPTION:All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\, or in person. \nTicket prices: General $60\; Senior (age 55+) $50\; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-r efundable.\nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, February 2\ , 2027 at Noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes.\n\nOnline: https://ucla.evenue.n et/events/CTO\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across from Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain un sold\, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@ti ckets.ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nProgram\n \nJoseph Haydn (1732-1809) \nString Quartet in D Major\, op. 76\, no. 5\n\ nClaude Debussy (1862-1918) \nString Quartet in G Minor\, op. 10\n\nLudwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) \nString Quartet No. 9\, op. 59\, no. 3\n\nAmer ican String Quartet\n\nPeter Winograd\, violin\nLaurie Carney\, violin\nMa tthias Buchholz\, viola\nWolfram Koessel\, cello\n\nInternationally recogn ized as one of the world's finest quartets\, the American String Quartet h as spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. The Qu artet celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2019\, and\, in its years of tour ing\, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most impor tant concert halls worldwide. The group’s presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven\, Schubert\, Schoenberg\, Bartók\, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim\, and their MusicMasters Mozart: The Comp lete String Quartets\, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments b y Stradivarius\, are widely considered to have set the standard for this r epertoire.\n\nRecent seasons featured performances of the Quartet’s maj or project together with the National Book Award-winning author Phil Klay and the poet Tom Sleigh\, which offers a groundbreaking program combining music and readings that examines the effects of war. The Quartet also coll aborated with the renowned author Salman Rushdie in a work for narrator an d quartet by the film composer Paul Cantelon built around Rushdie’s no vel The Enchantress of Florence. These tremendously imaginative collabor ations cement the American String Quartet’s reputation as one of the mos t adventurous and fearless string quartets performing today\, as comfortab le with the groundbreaking as with the traditional.\n\nThe Quartet's dive rse activities have also included numerous international radio and televi sion broadcasts\, including a recent recording for the BBC\; tours of Asia \; and performances with the New York City Ballet\, the Montreal Symphon y\, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recent highlights include performance s of an all-sextet program with Roberto and Andrès Díaz\, many tours o f South America\, and performances of the complete Beethoven cycle of stri ng quartets at the Cervantes Festival in Mexico and the Tel Aviv Museum  in Israel.\n\nThe American String Quartet’s additional extensive discogr aphy can be heard on the Albany\, CRI\, MusicMasters\, Musical Heritage S ociety\, Nonesuch\, and RCA labels. Most recently the group released Schu bert's Echo\, which pairs Schubert's monumental last quartet with works be aring its influence by Second Viennese masters Alban Berg and Anton Webern . This repertoire posits that the creative line from the First to the Seco nd Viennese Schools is continuous—and evident when these works are heard in the context of each other.\n\nAs champions of new music\, the American String Quartet has given numerous premieres\, including George Tsontakis ’s Quartet No. 7.5 (“Maverick) Richard Danielpour's Quartet No. 4\, and Curt Cacioppo's a distant voice calling. The premiere of Robert Si rota’s American Pilgrimage was performed around the U.S. in the citie s the work celebrates. The Quartet premiered Tobias Picker’s String Qu artet No. 2 in New York City in celebration of the 90th anniversary of th e Manhattan School of Music.\n\nFormed when its original members were stud ents at The Juilliard School\, the American String Quartet’s career beg an with the group winning both the Coleman Competition and the Naumburg  Award in the same year.  Resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival si nce 1974 and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York since 1984\, th e American String Quartet has also served as resident quartet at the Taos School of Music\, the Peabody Conservatory\, and the Van Cliburn Interna tional Piano Competition.\n\nWe are especially pleased to have the America n String Quartet perform this year\, as the Quartet will be retiring after their 2026-27 season. Founded in 1974\, upon retirement this long-standin g\, preeminent quartet will have been performing for an amazing fifty-thre e years!\n\nThe American String Quartet first performed in the Chamber Mus ic at the Clark series in its second season\, on January 14\, 1996\, and h ave performed a total of ten times at the Clark. The American String Quart et is an audience favorite\, so we are truly thrilled to be able to welcom e them back for an eleventh (though sadly last) time. We look forward to h aving you join us in thanking them for their wonderful performances over t he years\, celebrating their long career\, and wishing them all the best i n their retirement!\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bru man Endowment for Chamber Music\; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda F. A nderson\; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation\; Cat herine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer\; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph .D\; Johanna R. Drucker\, Ph.D.\; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service\; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousinea u\; Susan S. Harris\, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris\; Judith L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. Lopez\; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach\; Mr. Berni e Mendes and Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs. Janet K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nag in and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin\; Jeanne Robson\, Ph.D. \; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wilson\; and Mr. Robert A. Young a nd Mrs. Roberta J. Husted Young.\n\nPlease see here for more information a bout our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy of American String Quartet. 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