Just adding concerts as they come up – the first to be scheduled for this coming season is our first ever performance in Astoria at the lovely Liberty Theater. The concert will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, 2011. Program TBA.

Trevor Fitzpatrick/Photo: Absolute Images

We’ll be presenting another lunchtime concert at the OHSU Auditorium as part of their annual concert series.  Replacing Heather Blackburn temporarily for this concert will be our guest cellist from the Oregon Symphony, Trevor Fitzpatrick.  We’re thankful that he’s able to join us!

Two great Classical works will be played on this concert – the first, a late work by Franz Joseph “Papa” Haydn, the father of the modern string quartet form, the Op. 76 no. 4 in B-flat major “Sunrise”.  The second is part of a collection of six late string quartets that were famously dedicated to Haydn, by his successor in string quartet mastery, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – in this case the K. 565 C major “Dissonant” quartet.

Complete information and directions available here.

Here’s your answer – a nearly 4 minute mp3 of our pre-concert work on the opening of Mendelssohn’s great A minor String Quartet, op. 13.  Fumino Ando is on first violin, Shin-young Kwon on second.

Violinist Sarah Roth has taken a leave of absence for this season, and we’re pleased to welcome Fumino Ando as her able replacement for this season.  I don’t know if she realizes what she’s in for, but we’re glad to have her!

A quartet of Oregon Symphony musicians (Shin-young Kwon, Fumino Ando, violins; Masayo Higuchi, viola; Adam Esbensen, cello) performs Beethoven’s String Quartet, Op. 59 no. 1 “Razumovsky”, then the Arnicas take to the stage to perform Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F major, Op. 53 with the pianist of the Lanier Trio, Cary Lewis.

Free Admission.  Location: The Old Church 1422 SW 11th, Portland, Oregon, 97202.