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:335@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T143000 DTSTAMP:20210622T204703Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/arod-quartet-20/ SUMMARY:Chamber Music Conversations from the Clark: Arod Quartet DESCRIPTION:Presented live online via Zoom webinar on 3-21-2021\n\nhttps:// youtu.be/-yahJ-i8vFk\n\nJoin us for an exclusive online event featuring a concert performed by the Arod Quartet just for our audience\, followed by a live Q &\; A with the musicians moderated by Bruce Whiteman\, Clark L ibrarian Emeritus. Audience members will have the opportunity to pose ques tions via Zoom Group Chat.\n\nTo learn more about Chamber Music Conversati ons from the Clark and view videos from the series\, visit: http://1718.uc la.edu/events/categories/music/\n\nProgram\n\nLudwig van Beethoven (1770 –1827)\nString Quartet No. 7 in F Major\, op. 59\, no. 1\, “Razumovsky ”\nAllegro\nAllegretto vivace e sempre scherzando\nAdagio molto e mesto\ nThème russe: Allegro\nFranz Schubert (1797–1828)\nString Quartet No. 1 4 in D Minor\, "Death and the Maiden"\nII: Andante con moto\nProgram notes by Bruce Whiteman.\n\nArod Quartet\n\nJordan Victoria\, violin\nAlexandr e Vu\, violin\nTanguy Parisot\, viola\nSamy Rachid\, cello\n\nWith all fo ur members only in their twenties\, the Paris-based Arod Quartet has alrea dy dazzled awestruck chamber-music lovers in concerts at such prestigious venues as the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris\, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. The Arod quickly skyrocketed to international attention w hen they won the coveted First Prize of the 2016 ARD International Music C ompetition in Munich\, having already taken First Prize at the Carl Nielse n Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen. In April 2019 the Quartet under took its American debut tour\, which featured its inaugural Carnegie Hall performance–one of the only European chamber ensembles ever to make its Carnegie Hall debut on its first trip to the United States.\n\nHonored wit h a rare multi-record contract\, the Arod Quartet records exclusively for Erato Warner Classics\, which released their debut Mendelssohn album in Fa ll 2017. The group joined the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists’ ro ster that same year. The Quartet’s 2019–20 season featured performance s at the Philharmonie de Paris\, the Louvre\, and the Bourdeaux Opéra\; a tour with the remarkable pianist Alexandre Tharaud\; debut tours in Israe l and Taiwan\; and two tours in the United States to keep up with demand.\ n\nPrevious seasons have seen the Arod Quartet–which was named the ECHO Rising Star during the 2018–19 season–perform at the Auditorium of the Louvre\, the Philharmonie de Paris\, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre\, Salzburg’s Mozarteum\, the Konzerthaus in Vienna\, Amsterdam ’s Concertgebouw\, the Tonhalle Zurich\, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Li sbon\, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg\, the Oji Hall of Tokyo\, and the Be rlin Philharmonia.\n\nTheir teachers include Mathieu Herzog and Jean Sulem . The group currently serves as artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels with the Artemis Quartet. In recent years the Ar od has worked very closely with the Ebène Quartet and the Diotima Quartet \, and has collaborated with Alexandre Tharaud\, Martin Fröst\, and Amih ai Grosz\, the founding member of the Jerusalem Quartet and now the princi pal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic. Their sophomore album\, a recordin g of Schoenberg\, Zemlinsky\, and Webern with the soprano Elsa Dressing\, was released in Fall 2019 (Erato Warner Classics).\n\nThe group takes its name from Legolas’s horse in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy. In Tolkien’s mythic Rohirric language\, Arod means ‘swift.’ Mécénat Musical Société Générale is the Arod’s principal sponsor\ , and the ensemble is the 2016 HSBC Laureate of the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Jordan Victoria and Alexandre Vu are loan recipients of composite Stradivari and Guadagnini violins through the Beare’s Inter national Violin Society.\n\nhttps://quatuorarod.com/en/\n\nArod Quartet is represented by MKI Artists: https://mkiartists.com/\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by the generous support of The Ahmanson Fo undation\; The Colburn Foundation\; Martha Bardach\; Catherine Glynn Benka im\, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Marla C. Berns\; Dr. Rogers Brubaker\; Patricia Chock\; Regina and Bruce Drucker\; Beth S. Farb\; Susan Harris\; Judy and Sam Hellinger\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\; Dr . Sheldon H. Kardener and Monika Olofsson Kardener\; Carol Krause\; Mari a nd Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and Public Service\; Elaine and Bernie Mendes\; Janet and Henry Minami\; Bette I. and Jeffrey L. Nagin\; J oyce Perry\; Jeanne Robson\; Jackie and Charles Schwartz\; Dr. Patricia Ba tes Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Patricia Waldron\, M.D. \, and Richard Waldron\; and Roberta and Robert Young.\n\nImage: © Marco Borggreve ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11 /Quatuor_Arod_06©MarcoBorggreve-1-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR