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The
Miró Quartet will perform two different
concerts at Brigham Young University-Idaho Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 10
and 11, as part of the Center Stage Performing Arts Series.
Tickets
are $8 for the general public and $2 for BYU-Idaho students and available
at the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office or online at www.byui.edu/tickets.
While
at BYU-Idaho, the quartet will conduct a four-day residency with music
students.
The
Nov. 10 program will include Quartet in G Major, Op. 76/1 by Haydn, Quartet
No. 5 by Glass and Quartet in F minor, Op. 80 by Mendelsshon.
The Nov. 11 program will include Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5 by
Beethoven, Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters” by Janacek and Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 “Accordian” by Tchaikovsky.
The
quartet is recognized as one of the country’s brightest and most
exciting young chamber groups. Since winning first prize at the 1998 Banff
International String Quartet Competition and the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2000, the Miró Quartet has captivated audiences around the
world with its youthful intensity and mature interpretations.
Formed
in the fall of 1995, the quartet met with immediate success, winning the
first prize at the 50th annual Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April
1996, and the following month taking both the first and grand prizes at the
Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
The
quartet is faculty string quartet at The University of Texas at Austin.
The members of the Miró Quartet –
violinists Daniel Ching and Sandy Yamamoto,
violist John Largess, and cellist Joshua Gindele –
teach and coach chamber music there, while continuing their active
international touring schedule.
The
quartet has been heard on many national radio broadcasts, including those
of National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and Minnesota
Public Radio's "Saint Paul
Sunday."
The
Miró Quartet is named after the Spanish
artist Joan Miró, whose surrealist works,
with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy,
are some of the most original of the 20th century.
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