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Newburgh Chamber Music Series Presents the Amphion String Quartet
Newburgh Chamber Music Series presents the third in its 2015/2016 Concert Series "A Touch of France" with the Amphion String Quartet. The group will perform string quartets by Debussy and Grieg.
Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. The Quartet celebrated its 35th anniversary in the 2010-2011 season, and, in its years of touring, has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide. Their presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven (which they performed for NCM on their 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 seasons), Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim, and their Music Masters Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire. For further information about the ensemble, visit their website at http://www.americanstringquartet.com.
Hailed for its "gripping intensity" and "suspenseful and virtuoso playing" (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the roster of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two Program in fall 2013. Through LCCMS, the ensemble made its Alice Tully Hall debut in March 2014, about which the New York Times praised "the focused, forceful young Amphion String Quartet" for its "sharply detailed performances."
Internationally, the Amphion Quartet has performed previously in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. Previous US festival appearances include The Chautauqua Institution, OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, New Jersey's Mostly Music Series, NYU String Quartet Workshop, Princeton Summer Concerts, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Summer 2014 featured the world premiere of a new quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Music Festival (commissioned by Caramoor as the culmination of the 2012-13 Stiefel String Quartet residency). The ASQ has collaborated with such eminent artists as the Tokyo String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carter Brey, Edgar Meyer, Michala Petri, James Dunham and Deborah Hoffmann.
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LocationSt. George's Episcopal Church (View)
105 Grand Street
Newburgh, NY 12561
United States
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