We’ve got three concerts coming up in late Winter, early Spring:

If you’re an Oregon Symphony donor of at least $100, you can see us play the first movement of Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet (Kv. 465 in C major) on the Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert at Portland Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, February 25th.  You’ll have received an invitation in the mail from the symphony already if you’re on their donor list.

On Friday, March 12  at 7:30 p.m. we’ll be performing the Haydn “Fifths” Quartet (Op. 76 no. 2) and the Mozart “Dissonance” Quartet (in it’s entirety) at one of the Oregon Symphony’s Friends of the Oregon Symphony Parties of Note events.

Finally, on Sunday, March 21 at 2:30 p.m. we’ll be performing the Haydn and Mozart quartets described above as well as Beethoven’s epic String Quartet Op. 59 no. 1 “Razumovsky” on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the Salem Public Library.

Our guest cellist for these concerts will be Trevor Fitzpatrick.

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.

We had a great time introducing two rarely-heard chamber works to the enthusiastic OHSU Auditorium audience during the noon-hour today.  The OHSU Auditorium is one of our favorite venues to play in the city, and we’re so thankful to Mark Kemball and Susan Smith for asking us to play on the series for the second straight season!

Next comes our piano quartet concert on the Camerata Northwest series up in Seattle on March 21st, featuring the Ravel Duo for violin and cello, the Vieuxtemps Elegie for Viola and Piano, and the Saint-Saëns Piano Quartet; and our quartet concert at the Salem Camerata Musica series at the Salem Public Library on April 26th, featuring the fierce and wonderful Fourth Quartet by Bela Bartok!

We’re also waiting to see if we’ll be performing on this year’s Oregon Symphony Evelyn Nagel Donor Concert at the Newmark Theater on March 31st – stay tuned for that information.