Luri Lee, violin; Emily Kruspe, violin; Hezekiah Leung, viola; Jonathan Lo, cello
\nMay 2, 2019 | 1.30 pm | Walter Hall, U of T<\/p>\n
First Prize laureate of the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the\u00a0Rolston String Quartet\u00a0was named among the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s 2016 \u201c30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.\u201d A winner of Astral\u2019s 2016 National Auditions, this extraordinary quartet won the Grand Prize of the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, as well as prizes at the inaugural M-Prize competition and the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. On the heels of their Banff win, the Rolston immediately embarked upon the Competition\u2019s tour taking them to Germany, Italy, Austria, Canada, the United States and Israel.\u00a0 Currently the Yale School of Music\u2019s fellowship quartet-in-residence, the Rolston String Quartet takes its name from Canadian violinist Thomas Rolston, founder and long-time director of the Music and Sound Programs at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.\u00a0 Most recently, the quartet received the Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2018\u201319 and 2019\u201320 seasons.<\/p>\n
Program:<\/p>\n
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart \u2013 Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465,\u00a0\u201cDissonance\u201d
\nR. Murray Schafer \u2013 Quartet No. 2,\u00a0\u201cWaves\u201d
\nLudwig van Beethoven \u2013 Quartet No. 13 in B\u266d major, Op. 130<\/p>\n
In consideration of those with allergies or sensitivities, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, or other scented products at concerts. We share the air: go scent free.<\/p>\n
Tuning Your Mind | 12.15 pm | Walter Hall | Pre-concert Lecture<\/p>\n
Robin Elliott\u00a0\u2013 An introduction to the program by the Rolston String Quartet<\/p>\n
Robin Elliott was appointed to the Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto in 2002. The main focus of his scholarly work is composed Canadian music; he has produced a dozen books and editions of music (as author or editor), and 100 articles of varying length in this field. He is currently the Acting Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. In addition to curating the Tuning Your Mind series of pre-concert lectures, he is also the historian of the Women\u2019s Musical Club of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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