The Wallis Presents Suzana Bartal and the Calder Quartet at Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts
Dates: (4/9/2022 )
Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts |
Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts
9390 N Santa Monica Blvd
Beverly Hills,CA 90210
Phone: 310-746-4000
Tickets: $29-$79
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Piano virtuoso Suzana Bartal, considered one of the foremost pianists of her generation, returns to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with the acclaimed Calder Quartet to present a program of contemporary and timeless string quartets and piano quintets, including the U.S. premiere of leading French composer ric Tanguys Piano Quintet, on Saturday, April 9, 2022, 7:30 pm, in the Bram Goldsmith Theater. Tanguys work is juxtaposed by Schumanns Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44, the composers only piano quintet, composed in 1842 in just five days, which revolutionized the instrumentation for piano and strings and established the piano quintet as a quintessentially Romantic genre. The evening begins with a pair of string quartets spanning more than 200 years: String Quartet Op. 33, No. 4, composed in 1782 by the father of the string quartet, Joseph Haydn, and Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Albergas String Quartet No. 2, forward-leaning chamber work composed in 1994. Bartal has been hailed by the magazine Diapason for the depth of her touchthe richness of the textures. Los Angeles Times proclaims the Calder Quartet "one of America's great string quartets. A Concert Prelude moderated by Classical KUSCs Brian Lauritzen will be held at 6:30 pm.Bartal, who is French-Hungarian, was born in Timioara (Romania) and began her musical education in her hometown. She has since appeared at such prestigious venues such as the Paris Philharmonie, the Auditorium of Radio France, the Auditorium of the Muse du Louvre, Salle Pleyel and the Auditorium of the Muse dOrsay in Paris, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Merkin Hall in New York, the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, as well as Milton Court in London. Her recent performance highlights include concerts at the Festival Berlioz, the Festival de Besanon, Festival Classique au Vert in Paris, the Vichy Opera House, the Kaposvar Chamber Music Festival in Hungary, Schloss Elmau in Germany and the Turku Music Festival in Finland. Bartals wide-ranging repertoire spans solo works, concertos and chamber works. Also an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, she has worked with some of the most significant composers of our day, such as Thomas Ads and Eric Tanguy, whose work Rhapsodie for viola and piano she premiered with Lise Berthaud at the Festival de Pques Aix-en-Provence, a performance praised for its jubilatory virtuosity (Le Figaro). She has collaborated with Oscar-winning film composer Gabriel Yared as well.The Calder Quartet, hailed as superb and imaginative, skillful creators (The New York Times), explores a broad spectrum of repertoire, always striving to fulfill the composers vision in their performances. The groups distinctive artistry is exemplified by a musical curiosity brought to everything they perform. Winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the quartet is widely known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of todays best emerging composers. Noted for its performances of the complete Beethoven and Bartok quartets, the Calder Quartet is also dedicated to commissioning new works, giving rise to premieres of dozens of string quartets by established and up-and-coming composers, including Peter Etvs, Andrew Norman, Christopher Rouse, Ted Hearne and Christopher Cerrone. The quartet, inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, has an exclusive, multi-disc record deal with Pentatone records and has collaborated with acts such as Andrew WK, Lord Huron, Vampire Weekend, and The National. The Calder Quartets members are Benjamin Jacobson and Tereza Stanislav, violin; Jonathan Moerschel, viola; and Eric Byers, cello.Tickets, $29-$79, are on sale now. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is located at 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills. To purchase tickets and for more information, please call 310-746-4000 or visit https://thewallis.org/quartet.
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