Event overview
As part of the Department of Music's PureGold season, we present The Kreutzer Quartet.
The Kreutzer Quartet returns for their second concert of the year, linked to the work of composers at Goldsmiths. This concert focuses on Leoš Janácek's 2nd quartet, 'Intimate Letter's, perhaps one of the most overtly dramatic of 20th Century Quartets. With it, Priaulx Rainier's 'String Quartet', which exerted a heavy influence on the early quartets of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.
The members of the Kreutzer Quartet are Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff.
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dymanic and innovative string quartets. They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates. As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. They are Artists in Association at Quartet at York University, and at Wiltons Music Hall. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives.
Free, all welcome
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2014 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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