“This concert was a perfect union of intimate interaction between four musicians—real chamber music—and joyful, often playful, ‘performance’.” — Claire Seymour

Since its founding in 1994, the Zemlinsky Quartet has become a much lauded example of the Czech string quartet tradition. The quartet has won the First Grand Prize in the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition (2010) and also enjoyed a string of top competition prizes that include Banff, Prague Spring, and London, where it was also awarded the Audience Prize. It has also been the recipient of the Alexander Zemlinsky Advancement Award.

PROGRAM

• Mndoyants – Three Ukrainian Songs for String Quartet
• Beethoven – Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, “Razumovsky”
• Schumann – Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1