UPCOMING INTERLUDE CONCERT
The Isidore String Quartet
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 7:30 PM
Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of “approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.”
The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School. Following a break during the global pandemic, they reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021, under the tutelage of cellist Joel Krosnick. In addition to Mr. Krosnick, the ISQ has had many coaches, including our own Festival musicians Timothy Eddy and Robert McDonald.
Their Banff triumph brings extensive tours of North America and Europe, a two-year appointment as the Peak Fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas beginning in 2023-24, plus a two-week residency at Banff Centre including a professionally produced recording, along with extensive ongoing coaching, career guidance, and mentorship.
The Isidore Quartet has appeared on major series in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Durham, Washington (JFK Center), San Antonio, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, and has collaborated with a number of eminent performers including James Ehnes, Jeremy Denk, Shai Wosner, and Jon Nakamatsu.
Their 23/24 season will feature appearances in Berkeley (Cal Performances), Boston (Celebrity Series), Washington DC (Phillips Collection), New York (92nd St. Y), Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Aspen, and other cities across the country. European highlights include Edinburgh, Lucerne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hanover, Frankfurt, and Hamburg. On Wednesday, October 30, 2024, the Isidore Quartet will makes its Kennedy Center Terrace Theater debut.
Outside the concert hall the quartet has worked with PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US providing encouragement, education, and healing to marginalized communities – including elderly, disabled, rehabilitating incarcerated and homeless populations – who otherwise have limited access to high-quality live music performance. They have also been the resident ensemble for the Contemporary Alexander School/Alexander Alliance International. In conjunction with those well-versed in the world of Alexander Technique, as well as other performers, the ISQ explores the vast landscape of body awareness, mental preparation, and performance practice.
The name Isidore recognizes the ensemble’s musical connection to the Juilliard Quartet: one of that group’s early members was legendary violinist Isidore Cohen. Additionally, it acknowledges a shared affection for a certain libation – legend has it a Greek monk named Isidore concocted the first genuine vodka recipe for the Grand Duchy of Moscow!
Program for October 5, 2024 Concert
1756-1791
String Quartet No.19 in C major, K.465
Adagio – Allegro
Andante cantabile
Menuetto allegro
Allegro
1881-1945
Moderato
Allegro molto capriccioso
Lento
Intermission
1875-1937
Allegro moderato, très doux
Assez vif, très rythmé
Très lent
Vif et agité
Enjoy recorded selections from these recent Interlude concerts.
Andante
Allegro
Carnaval, arr. Hong for piano quartet
Natalie Loughran, viola
Zhu Wang, piano
INTERMISSION
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
(1932-2004)
String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary”
Allegro
Adagio
Rondo. Allegro vivace
Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
Petrouchka, arr. Hong for piano quintet
Tableau I: The -tide Fair
Tableau II: Petrouchka”s Room
Tableau III: The Moor’s Room
Tableau IV: The Shrove-tide Fair
Towards Evening
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