Oct 07, 2015 |
The Lark Quartet will perform at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16. It is the second concert in the 2015-16 Friends of Good Music concert series.
The quartet will perform works by Beethoven, Haydn and Wolf.
The Lark Quartet has delighted audiences with its energy, passionate commitment and artistry since its inception in 1985. The Lark has performed in many of the world’s great cultural centers including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Library of Congress, London’s Wigmore Hall, L’Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, and appeared at international festivals including Lockenhaus (Austria), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival (Germany), Mostly Mozart, Istanbul Festival, Wolftrap and the Beethoven Festival in Moscow.
Promising to deliver “a performance of grace, proportion and burnished brilliance” (The Washington Post), The Lark Quartet offers audiences new insights into the art of chamber music through programs that begin with the ensemble virtuosity of the Western tradition and continue into recent music from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, all while regularly sharing the stage with dynamic collaborators.
With a discography comprising more than a dozen CDs, the Lark has recorded for the Decca/Argo, Arabesque, Bridge, ERI, Endeavor, Koch, Point and New World labels. Lark Quartet: Composing America, comprising works by John Adams, William Bolcom, Paul Moravec and Aaron Copland, was released on Bridge Records in 2014 to international acclaim. WQXR of New York said “the strings soar as a single entity” about the quartet’s 2013 release of “An Exaltation of Larks: Music of Jennifer Higdon. It was chosen as Bridge’s Album of the Week upon its release in March of 2013. The Lark served as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst from 2004-08 and has performed and taught as part of residencies across the United States.
The Lark Quartet members, Deborah Buck and Basia Danilow, violins, Kathryn Lockwood, viola, and Caroline Stinson, cello, all live in the New York City area with their families.
Subscription tickets are still available. A basic subscription to the Friends of Good Music season, which includes one ticket to each of six concerts, is $99 (discounted to $81 for senior citizens and $27 for students). A seven-concert subscription is $109 ($89 for senior citizens and $30 for students).
Single ticket prices for Friends of Good Music performances are $20 at full price, $16 for senior citizens and St. Bonaventure staff, and $5 for students. For tickets and information, call The Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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