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:579@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270228T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270228T160000 DTSTAMP:20261020T221820Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/cuarteto-casals/ SUMMARY:Cuarteto Casals with Cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia\, Chamber Mu sic 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\, January 26\ , 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 F Minor\, op. 20\, no. 5\n\n Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)\nString Quartet No. 4 in D Major\, op. 83\ n\nFranz Schubert (1797-1828)\nString Quintet in C Major\, D. 956\n\nCuart eto Casals with Cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia \nVera Martinez\, violin \nAbel Tomàs\, violin\nCristina Cordero\, viola\nArnau Tomàs\, cello\nSa ntiago Cañón-Valencia\, cello\nCelebrating its 30th anniversary during t he 2026–2027 season\, Cuarteto Casals has established itself as one of t he world’s leading string quartets and a defining presence in today’s international chamber music scene.\n\nFounded in 1997 at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid\, the ensemble appears each season at ma ny of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals\, includi ng Carnegie Hall in New York\, the Philharmonie and Boulez Saal in Berlin\ , the Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna\, the Salzburg Festival\, Wigm ore Hall in London\, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, the Philharmonie de Paris\, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo.\n\nIts commitment to uncovering the ess ence of every score is reflected in more than twenty recordings for harmon ia mundi\, featuring works by Bach\, Haydn\, Mozart\, Schubert and Brahms\ , as well as the complete string quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich. T his artistic approach also extends to historically informed performances u sing Baroque and Classical bows from the London-based Borletti Buitoni Tru st. Alongside this\, the quartet maintains a strong commitment to contempo rary music through the premiere of new works and long-standing collaborati ons with today's composers.\n\nIn its anniversary season\, Cuarteto Casals once again serves as Artistic Director of the Barcelona String Quartet Bi ennial\, presented by L’Auditori. The ensemble also gives the premiere o f a new string quartet by Raquel García-Tomás\, jointly commissioned by Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM)\, the Kölner Philharmonie\, a nd the Musikverein Wien.\n\nHighlights of the 2026-27 season include tours across Asia and North America as well as extensive performances across Eu rope\, with concerts at renowned venues\, including a tribute concert for the 150th anniversary of Pablo Casals’s birth at Palau de la Música in Barcelona\, Bozar\, Het Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam\, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin\, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid\, Kölner Philharmonie\, and Amici d ella Musica di Firenze.\n\nAlongside its performing career\, Cuarteto Casa ls is deeply committed to teaching and holds residencies at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole\, the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya\, and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. The ensemble has received Spain’s Nationa l Music Prize\, the Medal of Honor of the Escuela Reina Sofía\, Catalonia ’s National Culture Prize\, and the Barcelona City Prize.\n\nColombian c ellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia is a prolific soloist\, composer\, commis sioner\, recording artist\, painter\, and photographer described as “tec hnically flawless… totally under the skin of the composers’ idioms” (The Strad). He was named a BBC New Generation Artist in 2022. Born in Bog otá in 1995\, Cañón-Valencia made his orchestral debut as a soloist wit h the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá at age six\, blossoming into an acc omplished musician praised as “an artist from whom sound and texture flo w with ease and authenticity” (The Whole Note) and a “virtuoso of outs tanding versatility and technical ease” (The Violin Channel).\n\nIn a hi ghlight of his 2026-27 season\, Cañón-Valencia makes his Carnegie Hall d ebut in the course of a five-city North American recital tour with pianist and frequent collaborator Victor Santiago Asunción. Among his other seas on highlights\, he performs a solo recital at Tanglewood\, presented by th e Boston Symphony Orchestra. He makes orchestral debuts as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and with the Delaware Symphony Orchestr a\, where he performs as soloist on Gabriela Ortiz’s Dzonot Cello Concer to. His return engagements include performances with the Malaysian Philhar monic Orchestra\, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra\, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá\, and Filarmónica de Galicia. He also embarks on a North American recital tour with the Casals Quartet\, a West Coast chamber tour with Cam erata Pacifica artists Grace Park and Irina Zahharenkova\, and a tour of I taly with pianist Naoko Sonoda. He makes return appearances to the Cartage na Music Festival in Colombia and Festival Casals in Puerto Rico.\n\nCañ ón-Valencia’s many accolades include Silver Medalist and “Audience Fa vorite” at the 2019 XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition\; recipien t of the 2018 Starker Foundation Award\; Third Prize honoree at the 2017 Q ueen Elisabeth International Competition\; and First Prize winner at the C arlos Prieto International Cello Competition and Beijing International Mus ic Competition\, among many others.\n\nHis solo career has taken him aroun d the world to perform with such orchestras as the SWR Symphonieorchester\ , BBC Symphony Orchestra\, Brussels Philharmonic\, Frankfurt Radio Orchest ra\, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra\, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestr a\, Belgrade Philharmonic\, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra\, BBC National Orchestra of Wales\, Antwerp Symphony\, Ulster Orchestra\, Orquesta Sinf ónica de Galicia\, Macedonian Philharmonic\, RTVE Symphony Orchestra\, an d San Francisco Symphony\, as well as all of the major orchestras in his n ative Colombia. During the 2023-24 season\, he made his debut at London’ s Wigmore Hall as a BBC New Generation Artist alongside pianist Naoko Sono da. He has been featured at South Korea’s Mostly Cello Festival and in 1 00th birthday celebrations in honor of János Starker in Seoul\, South Kor ea\, and Tokyo\, Japan. Over recent seasons\, his North American schedule has taken him to performances with ensembles including the Kansas City Sym phony\, Camerata Pacifica\, Phoenix Symphony\, Alabama Symphony\, Grand Ra pids Symphony\, and Montgomery Symphony Orchestra.\n\nPassionate about col laboration with living composers\, Cañón-Valencia performed the world pr emiere of Amparo Angel’s Cello Concerto at the Morelia Festival in Mexic o\, as well as the US premiere of Tobias Picker’s Cello Concerto with th e Montgomery Symphony during the 2025-26 season. Previously\, he performed world premieres including Carlos Andrés Mejía’s Cello Concerto “Aur ora” at Colombia’s Pereira Music Fest\, Jorge Pinzón’s Cello Concer to “Rapsodia a los 4 Elementos” at the Cartagena International Music F estival\, and Carlos Izcaray’s commissioned cello concerto Stringmaster with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. He also gave the Colombian premiere o f Ginaster’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with the National Symphony Orchestra o f Colombia.\n\nAs a recording artist\, Cañón-Valencia enjoys immersing h imself in known and unknown works\, particularly in commissioning new piec es\, arranging\, and composing. In July 2025\, he released his second sing le on Deutsche Grammophon—a recording of his original work Ouróboros wi th pianist Naoko Sonoda—as part of the label’s Musical Moments series. His previous DG single\, a recording of Arvo Pärt’s Fratres\, also per formed with Sonoda\, was released as part of the same series in 2024. His latest complete album\, Ascenso\, released in November 2022 on Sono Luminu s\, showcases pieces arranged and written by himself\, plus works commissi oned and written for him by contemporary Colombian composers. Earlier reco rdings include his acclaimed debut release Solo\, an album with pianist An drea Lucchesini dedicated to Schubert and Beethoven\, for the Egea label\, and an album of Russian cello sonatas and popular pieces from the cello r epertoire with pianist Katherine Austin\,for the Atoll label.\n\nCañón-V alencia’s primary musical mentors have been Henryk Zarzycki in Colombia\ , James Tennant in New Zealand\, Andres Diaz in the United States\, and Wo lfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. He has been spo nsored by the Mayra &\; Edmundo Esquenazi Scholarship through the Salvi Foundation since 2011.\n\nLearn more at www.santiagocanonvalencia.com.\n\ n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundatio n\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Cham ber Music\; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson\; Martha Barda ch/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer\; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph.D\; Johanna R. Drucke r\, Ph.D.\; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public S ervice\; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau\; 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. Bernie Mendes and Ms. Elain e Mendes\; Mrs. Janet K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. N agin\; Jeanne Robson\, Ph.D. \; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rose nthal\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wilson\; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Roberta J. Hus ted Young.\n\nPlease see here for more information about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy of Arts Management Group. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10 /Cuarteto-Casals-Site.png CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR