The Summer Camp
of
MPM

presents
The Chiara String Quartet

8:00 p.m. Friday, July 23, 2004
St. Mary Magdalene Church

Mozart String Quartet K.499 in D Major

  • Allegretto
  • Menuetto
  • Adagio
  • Allegro

Dimitri Shostakovich String Quartet no.5 in B flat Major op. 92 (1952)

  • Allegro non troppo-attacca:
  • Andante-Andantino-Andante-Andantino-Andante-attacca:
  • Moderato-Allegretto-Andante

* * * * * Intermission * * * * *

Antonin Dvorák String Quartet in F Major op. 96, the "American"

  • Allegro ma non troppo
  • Lento
  • Molto Vivace
  • Finale: Vivace, ma non troppo

Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins
Jonah Sirota, viola
Greg Beaver, cello

The Chiara String Quartet

Graduate quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School, the Chiara String Quartet is at the forefront of a new generation of exceptional American string quartets. Praised for its "utmost commitment and ardour" and for how it "creates an intimate electricity," the group won first prize in the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. The Chiara Quartet has toured extensively throughout the U.S., and made its March 2004 Alice Tully Hall Debut at N.Y.'s Lincoln Center playing on Stradivari instruments loaned from the Juilliard Rare Instrument Collection. As part of a Young Audience program the group plays for thousands of N.Y. school children each year and through music camp residences has gained solid experience in coaching gifted young chamber musicians.

Violinist, Rebecca Fischer: Graduate, The Juilliard School & Columbia Univ. where she studied music and religion. Her primary teachers include Joel Smirnoff, Masao Kawasaki & Kathleen Winkler. She is married to the poet/writer Anthony Hawley.

Violinist, Julie Yoon: Attended Mannes & The Juilliard School. As founding member of The Vaux Quartet (1996-2000), performed frequently at The Lincoln Center. Primary teachers include Sally Thomas and Ernest Pereira. When not practicing, Ms. Yoon spends her time working on her new found interest, Tai Chi.

Violist, Jonah Sirota: Graduate Rice Univ. & The Juilliard School where he was a student of Samuel Rhodes & Martha Katz. Active solo career, most recently performing the Bloch Suite in Avery Fisher Hall and the Penderecki Viola Concerto in Houston.

Cellist, Greg Beaver: Both an international performer and a devoted teacher. Winner 1997 Corpus Christi Young Artists Competition. Graduate, Rice Univ. & The Juilliard School.