Avalon String Quartet [Rebroadcast]

April 15, 2020, 12:15 pm

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This is a rebroadcast of the Avalon String Quartet recorded live in performance from Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center.

Blaise Magnière, violin
Marie Wang, violin
Anthony Devroye, viola
Cheng-Hou Lee, cello

The Avalon has performed in major venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, Merkin Hall, and Bargemusic in New York; the Library of Congress and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC; Wigmore Hall in London; and Herculessaal in Munich. Other performances include appearances at the Bath International Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Caramoor, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, NPR’s St. Paul Sunday, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Dame Myra Hess Concerts, Los Angeles Music Guild, and the Ravinia Festival. The quartet is performing the complete Beethoven Cycle for Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary Celebration at its concert series in historic Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University. In recent seasons, the Avalon presented the complete quartet cycles of Beethoven, Bartok, and Brahms at Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Avalon is quartet-in-residence at the Northern Illinois University School of Music, a position formerly held by the Vermeer Quartet. Additional teaching activities have included the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute, Interlochen Advanced Quartet Program, Madeline Island Music Camp, and the Britten-Pears School in England, as well as masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the United States. Additionally, they have given numerous performances and presentations to young audiences in under-resourced schools and communities.
Biography courtesy of the artist’s website.

  • “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” from Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, by Florence Price 

  • String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3, by Beethoven

    Andante con moto – Allegro vivace
    Andante con moto quasi allegretto
    Menuetto (Grazioso)
    Allegro molto