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:444@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240317T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240317T160000 DTSTAMP:20240304T163236Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/dover-quartet2024/ SUMMARY:Dover Quartet\, Chamber Music at the Clark DESCRIPTION:Seats will be available for purchase on Tuesday\, February 13 a t 12:00 p.m. noon\, via a link posted here at that time. General admission seats are $40\, and UCLA student seats (for UCLA students only\, valid UI D for each student required) are $10. Seating at the Clark Library is limi ted. Purchases are non-refundable. To receive announcements when concert s eats go on sale\, please sign up for our mailing list.\nSOLD OUT\nWhile we do not maintain a wait list\, we do offer same day stand-by seating for a ll Chamber Music at the Clark concerts. For more information on stand-by s eating\, please see here\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nJoaquín Turina (1882–1949) \nLa oración del torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer)\, op. 34\n\nLeoš Ja náček (1854–1928)\nString Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate Letters”)\n\nFr anz Schubert (1797–1828)\nString Quartet in D minor (“Death and the Ma iden”)\, D 810\n\nDover Quartet\n\nJoel Link\, violin\nBryan Lee\, violi n\nJulianne Lee\, viola\nCamden Shaw\, cello\n\nNamed one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine\, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand cha mber ensembles. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in R esidence at the Curtis Institute of Music and holds additional residencies at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University and the Walton A rts Center’s Artosphere festival. The group’s awards include a stunnin g sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Compe tition\, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition\ , and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its honors include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant\, Chamber Mu sic America’s Cleveland Quartet Award\, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Fami ly Award.\n\nThe Dover Quartet’s 2023-24 season includes a North America n tour with Leif Ove Andsnes\, performances with Haochen Zhang and David S hifrin\, and a tour to Europe and Israel. A sought-after ensemble\, recent collaborators include Emanuel Ax\, Inon Barnaton\, Ray Chen\, the Escher String Quartet\, Bridget Kibbey\, Anthony McGill\, Edgar Meyer\, the Pavel Haas Quartet\, Roomful of Teeth\, and Davóne Tines. In 2022\, the quarte t premiered Steven Mackey’s theatrical-musical work Memoir\, alongside a rx duo and actor-narrator Natalie Christa. They also recently premiered wo rks by Mason Bates\, Marc Neikrug\, and Chris Rogerson.\n\nThe Dover Quart et’s highly acclaimed three-volume recording\, Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Cedille Records)\, was hailed as “meticulously balanced\, tec hnically clean-as-a-whistle and intonationally immaculate” (The Strad). The quartet’s discography also includes Encores (Brooklyn Classical)\, a recording of 10 popular movements from the string quartet repertoire\; Th e Schumann Quartets (Azica Records)\, which was nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance\; Voices of Defiance: 1943\ , 1944\, 1945 (Cedille Records)\; and an all-Mozart debut recording (Cedil le Records)\, featuring the late Michael Tree — long-time violist of the Guarneri Quartet. Voices of Defiance\, which explores works written durin g World War II by Viktor Ullman\, Dmitri Shostakovich\, and Simon Laks\, w as lauded as “undoubtedly one of the most compelling discs released this year” (The Wall Street Journal).\n\nThe Dover Quartet draws from the li neage of the distinguished Guarneri\, Cleveland\, and Vermeer quartets. It s members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music\, Rice University’s S hepherd School of Music\, the New England Conservatory\, and the Conservat oire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. They were mentored extens ively by Shmuel Ashkenasi\, James Dunham\, Norman Fischer\, Kenneth Goldsm ith\, Joseph Silverstein\, Arnold Steinhardt\, Michael Tree\, and Peter Wi ley. The Dover Quartet was formed at Curtis in 2008\; its name pays tribut e to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber.\n\nThe Dover Quartet’s faculty residency at Curtis integrates teaching and mentorship \, a robust international performance career\, and a cutting-edge digital presence. The innovative residency allows Curtis to reinvigorate its tradi tion of maintaining a top-quality professional string quartet on its facul ty\, while providing resources for the ensemble to experiment with new tec hnologies and engage audiences digitally. Working closely with students in the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet Program\, the Dover Quartet coache s and mentors the most promising young string quartets to nurture a new ge neration of leading professional chamber ensembles.\n\nThe Dover Quartet p lays on the following instruments and proudly endorses Thomastik-Infeld st rings:\n\nJoel Link: a very fine Peter Guarneri of Mantua\, 1710–15\, on generous loan from Irene R. Miller through the Beare’s International Vi olin Society\nBryan Lee: Riccardo Antoniazzi\, Milan\, 1904\; Samuel Zygmu ntowicz\, Brooklyn\, 2020\nJulianne Lee: Robert Brode\, 2005\nCamden Shaw: Joseph Hill\, London\, 1770\n\nThe Dover Quartet appears by arrangement w ith the Curtis Institute of Music\, where it serves as the Penelope P. Wat kins Ensemble in Residence.\n\n\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark\nProfess or Rogers Brubaker\, Artistic Director\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is ma de possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott \; The Colburn Foundation\; Martha Bardach\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph. D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Rogers Brubaker\; Dr. Susan Harris and Mark Ha rris\; Judy Hellinger\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\; Dr. Sheldon H. Kardener and Monika Olofsson Kardener\; Elaine and Bernie Mende s\; Janet Minami\; Bette I. and Jeffrey L. Nagin\; Dr. Jeanne Robson\; Car ol E. Sandberg\; Charles H. and Carol “Jackie” Schwartz\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Patricia Waldron\, M .D.\, and Richard Waldron\; and Roberta and Robert Young.\n\nPlease see he re for more information about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhotograp h credit: Roy Cox\, courtesy of the artists. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08 /Dover-Quartet-1_photo-credit-Roy-Cox_150dpi.jpg 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:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR