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The award-winning Cavani String Quartet
will perform two separate programs Nov. 16 and 17 in the Barrus
Concert Hall at Brigham Young University-Idaho as part of the
Center Stage Performing Arts Series.
Because of construction at the Snow Center for the Performing
Arts, the concerts will have a late start at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
are $12 for the general public and $2 for BYU-Idaho students and
available from the BYU-Idaho Ticket Office, by calling 496-2230
or online at www.byui./edu/tickets.
In addition to receiving the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music
Award, the quartet has been a top prize winner in numerous
competitions including the Coleman, Fischoff, Banff
International and the Cleveland Quartet competitions. Since
their New York debut in 1987, they have won the hearts of
audiences across the country with their soulful and riveting
performances.
The Wednesday night program will feature String Quartet in F
Major by Maurice Ravel
and String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
The Thursday night program will feature an all-woman composers’
program, including “Demeter Prelude” by Margaret Brouwer, “Blue
and Green Music” by Kathleen Ginther,
“Breakfast at the Ibis” by Merry Peckham and “Night Fields” by
Joan Tower.
While in Rexburg, the quartet will conduct a four-day residency
with BYU-Idaho string students.
The Cavani Quartet concertizes regularly on major series and
festivals throughout North America and Europe. The quartet makes
its home in Cleveland, Ohio, where they have been
quartet-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music since
1988.
Active proponents of new music, the quartet has commissioned,
performed, and recorded the music of a worldwide array of living
composers, including Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Dan Welcher, Joan
Tower, Donald Erb, James Primosch, and Margaret Brouwer. The
quartet annually programs world premieres and is a recipient of
an ASCAP-Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming
of Contemporary Music.
Formed in 1984, the Cavani Quartet is named after the 19th
century violin makers Giovanni and Vincenzo Cavani. |