Fry Street Quartet in Residence at Hartt Community Division This Summer

The Fry Street Quartet will be in residence at The Hartt School Community Division (HCD) July 30 through August 8, working with advanced teenagers in HCD's 3rd annual David Einfeldt Chamber Music Seminar. The week long seminar features a performance by the Fry Street Quartet on August 4, at 7:00 PM in Lincoln Theater. Admission is $20 for adults with discounts available for seniors and students. Please contact the Hartt Community Division office at 860.768.4451 or visit the performance and events calendar at www.hartford.edu/hartt for details.

The Fry Street Quartet includes William Fedkenheuer, violin; Rebecca McFaul, violin; Bradley Ottesen, viola; and Anne Francis, cello. The August 4 concert will feature works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Mendelssohn.

In addition to the performance at Lincoln Theater, the Quartet will present a series of masterclasses and individual coaching sessions with student quartets.

About the Fry Street Quartet
Hailed as "a triumph of ensemble playing" (New York Times), Fry Street Quartet has perfected a "blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity" (Strad). Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2000, Fry Street Quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to Sarajevo and Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with "profound understanding, ...depth of expression, and stunning technical astuteness" (Deseret Morning News). For more information about the Fry String Quartet visit www.frystreetquartet.com.

The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford is a comprehensive community arts school providing instruction in music and dance for individuals of all ages and experience levels. It is a division of The Hartt School, one of the seven colleges of the University of Hartford. The Community Division is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Pre-College Art Schools, is an active member of National Guild of Community Arts Education, and is viewed as a national model for community schools based on university campuses. It is one of the largest and most evolved programs of its kind in the country. For more information on The Hartt School Community Division, visit www.hcd.hartford.edu.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information on The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

Photo credit: Donna Barry

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