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Artemis Quartet
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 7:30 pm
*Discuss each night's music with Lisa Brooks at 6:45 pm
Program
String Quartet, Op. 88.6
Nikolai Kapustin
Mandares
Thomas Larcher
Intermission
String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Opus 11
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This presentation is supported by the Preforming Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art, with additional contributions from General Mills Foundation, Land O'Lakes Foundation, and Indiana Arts Commission.
Tonight's Concert is underwritten by a generous grant from the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation.
FREE PARKING
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 40188 Indianapolis, IN 46240
Concert Address: 450 West
Ohio St. Indianapolis, IN 46202
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The Musicians
Playing with a “fullness of sound, delineated structure, and unparalleled drama”, the Artemis Quartet has been praised as “the best ensemble now performing”. The group was founded by four students at the Lubeck Musikhochschule in 1989 and after a professional debut in 1994 quickly established itself as an international force with First Prizes at the ARD and Premio Borciani Competitions in 1996. Rather than immediately jumping on the career fast track, the group decided on another year of intensive study before its formal debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 1999. Since then the Artemis has never looked back and has long been considered one of the greatest chamber ensembles in existence. Its concert schedule has included tours of Europe, the United States, Japan, South America, and Australia as well as performances at many of the world’s foremost music festivals.
The group’s repertoire is immense and in addition to the Classical and Romantic standards the Artemis regularly premieres works by such notable contemporary composers as Mauricio Sotelo, Jorg Widmann, and Thomas Larcher. In fact, the Larcher piece we will hear tonight was premiered by the Artemis Quartet in January.
The Artemis’ recording career has featured a German Record Critic’s Award, a Diapason D’Or, and an Echo Klassik Award for Chamber Music Recording of the Year.
The group is also an important teaching ensemble and holds a joint professorship in chamber music at Berlin’s Universitat der Kunste and a guest lectureship at the Chapelle Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.