Santa Fe Pro Musica’s celebrated String Quartet Series continues this February with the “Passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding” Brentano Quartet (London Independent). In their program “Chiaroscuro”—referring to an artistic technique that uses contrasting light and shadow to create volume and depth—Shostakovich's intensely personal String Quartet No. 8, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war, sits in high contrast with two of the most uplifting, ebullient quartets by Mozart and Mendelssohn.
PROGRAM
MOZART Quartet in D Major, K. 499
SHOSTAKOVICH Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
MENDELSSOHN Quartet in D Major, Op. 44, No. 1
TICKETS: $22–$92
Tickets available through the Pro Musica Box Office at 505.988.4640 X 1000 or click below.
Additional Free Event: Light and Shadow—Conversation and Demonstration
Members of the Brentano Quartet illustrate the wide range of human experience and emotion contained in the music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Shostakovich.
This FREE event will be held on Sunday, February 11, 2023 at 10 am in the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
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About the Brentano Quartet
photo: Jurgen Frank
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano Quartet has garnered acclaim (the New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism”) and awards (Cleveland Quartet Award, Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Royal Philharmonic Award).
They have performed world-wide from Carnegie Hall (New York), the Library of Congress (Washington D.C)., the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Konzerthaus (Vienna), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Sydney Opera House, and places in between.
Since 2014 they have been Artists-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music, formerly the Ensemble-in-Residence at Princeton University, and twice the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.