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.

Saturday, December 19th, the quartet played the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon as part of the Newport Symphony’s 2009-2010 season.  We had a great crowd of very enthusiastic music lovers, and the concert was very well received.  We hope to return to their season in the future – it was a shame that we weren’t able to stay after the concert and meet more people and see more of Newport.  Unfortunately, we had to drive back to Portland for an Oregon Symphony rehearsal and concert Sunday morning.

Our guest pianist for the Franck Piano Quintet that we were fortunate to collaborate with one of our favorite artists in Portland, pianist Cary Lewis.  He played with passion and sensitivity, and really brought this work to life for us!

We also had the great fortune of having another wonderful guest cellist for this concert, and we stayed in the family after having invited Trevor Fitzpatrick to perform with us at the OHSU concert earlier this year.  This time his wife, Marilyn deOliveira, also a member of the Oregon Symphony, was able to perform a highly demanding program with great grace, humor, and artistic excellence.  Thank you, Marilyn!

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.

OHSU Concert Series
Program TBA
October 28, 2009 @ 12 Noon
Oregon Health Sciences University Auditorium
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd
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French Program with pianist Cary Lewis
Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello
Debussy – Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Franck – Piano Quintet

December 19, 2009 @ 7:00 p.m.
Newport Performing Arts Center
777 West Olive, Newport, Oregon
www.newportsymphony.org

Camerata Musica Salem
Program TBA
March 21, 2010 @ 2:30 p.m.
Salem Public Library, Loucks Auditorium
www.cameratamusica.org

Program:

W.A. Mozart – Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Béla Bartók – String Quartet No. 4
Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13

At 12 Noon this Wednesday, April 22nd, the Arnica Quartet will perform on the Old Church’s Sack Lunch concert series (SW 11th and Clay). The program will feature two works of the 20th century: Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello (1922) and Bela Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 (1928).

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.