St. Lawrence String Quartet
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Schwab Auditorium
Ludwig van Beethoven’s string quartets are among the crowning achievements of chamber music. The St. Lawrence String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at Stanford University, inaugurates a three-season Center for the Performing Arts program featuring the complete Beethoven quartet cycle. The St. Lawrence, formed in Toronto in 1989, “[makes] a convincing case for being the top quartet of the post-Emerson generation,” asserts a reviewer for MusicalAmerica.com. A New York Times critic lauds the ensemble’s “rare gift for combining interpretive spontaneity and fierce musical commitment.” First violinist Geoff Nuttall and violist Lesley Robertson, founding members, are joined by cellist Christopher Costanza and second violinist Scott St. John. The program includes the quartets in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5, and C sharp minor, Op. 131.
sponsor
Nina C. Brown Endowment
This presentation is a component of the Center for the Performing Arts Classical Music Project. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project provides opportunities to engage students, faculty, and the community with classical music artists and programs.
Complimentary round-trip shuttle service is provided between the Eisenhower Parking Deck and Schwab Auditorium.
Master class for string students
The public is invited to observe a St. Lawrence String Quartet master class for Penn State School of Music string students at 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 10, in Music Building I’s Esber Recital Hall. Professor of Music James Lyon leads the seventy-five-minute session.
Beethoven Salon Evening with St. Lawrence String Quartet
The public is invited to a free Beethoven Salon Evening at 7 p.m. Monday, October 10, in the Nittany Lion Inn Assembly Room. The ninety-minute event features the St. Lawrence String Quartet performing excerpts of Beethoven quartets, and Marie Sumner Lott, assistant professor of musicology at Penn State, lending insight into Beethoven and his quartets.
