Jupiter String Quartet
Winter Chamber Music Festival
Friday, January 25, 2019 at 7:30pm CST
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Nelson Lee and Megan Freivogel, violin; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello
“Eloquent intensity” –The New Yorker
Winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Cleveland Quartet Award, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Jupiter Quartet stands at the forefront of the new generation of chamber ensembles. The quartet has appeared at celebrated venues throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Austria’s Esterházy Palace, and Seoul’s National Arts Center. The group has commissioned numerous works by composers including Syd Hodkinson, Hannah Lash, Dan Visconti, and Mark Adamo, with a quartet by Kati Agócs to be premiered in summer 2018. Their most recent album Revelations, featuring chamber music by Su Lian Tan, was released in 2017.
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13
Henri Dutilleux, Ainsi la nuit
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Address
50 Arts Cir Dr
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
About
Pick-Staiger is a 972-seat hall located in the Arts Circle on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The main lobby entrance for concerts is on the west side of the building (revolving and regular doors). Since its inception in 1975, the hall has functioned as both a classroom and performance facility for Bienen School of Music performing ensembles, faculty recitals, festivals, and professional guest artists.