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Meet Alec Chien
ASQ will perform will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 8, with guest artist Alec Chienin Ford Memorial Chapel at Allegheny College. So in the meantime, we wanted to share a little about Mr. Chien! Alec Chien received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees from the Juilliard School… Continue Reading
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Performing with the Asheville Chamber Music Series
Alexander String Quartet performs this evening at the Asheville Unitarian Church as a part of the Asheville Chamber Music Series. “The 2011-12 season marks the fifty-ninth year of the Asheville Chamber Music Series (ACMS), which has sponsored over 240 concerts by some of the world’s finest classical musicians over the past five decades. One of… Continue Reading
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The ASQ at The Miller School of Albemarle
The ASQ stopped by the Miller School of Albemarle prep school in Charlottesville, VA this past week, so we’ve got some pictures and videos from the concert to share: Watch a video of Sandy performing for the students on our Facebook Page! Continue Reading
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Pictures from the road
Some pictures from the Alexander String Quartet trip to the University of Virginia for the “Tuesday Evening Concert Series”: Continue Reading
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An “Homage” to “The Hunt”
Sunday at the Fullerton Friends of Music concert, the ASQ will be performing Mozart’s Quartet in B-flat — “The Hunt.” A work certainly not unfamiliar to the ensemble, as it appeared on the 2010 recording Homage: The Six Quartets Dedicated to Joseph Haydn! “The Hunt” Quartet is one of the Six “Haydn” Quartets written by… Continue Reading
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Introducing Gary Gray
Sunday at the Sunny Hills Performing Arts Center, ASQ will perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Minor with clarinetist Gary Gray in the Fullerton Friends of Music Concert. Gary Gray studied clarinet with Robert McGinnis and Henry Gulick, and chamber music with Janos Starker at Indiana University, where he he obtained his Master’s degree… Continue Reading
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Meet Cindy Cox
Friday, ASQ will be at a “Meet the Composer” event at Santa Rosa Junior College to preview the world premiere (4/13/12) of composer Cindy Cox’s new string quartet Patagón, so today we’re excited to introduce you to this wonderful composer Radical, traditional, original, archetypal, Cindy Cox (b.1961) derives her “post-tonal” musical language from acoustics, innovations in technology,… Continue Reading
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A Decade of Romance With Schubert’s G Major Quartet
This past Saturday morning the ASQ performed Schubert’s Quartet in G Major, D. 887, Op. posth. 161 (1826) in the Herbst Theater as the penultimate work in our traversal of that amazing composer’s work for the string quartet. This particular quartet has enormous meaning to us as a group and to me personally. When we… Continue Reading
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Schubert Series Continues this Saturday!
Saturday the Franz Schubert San Francisco Series Continues! Read previous blogs on the series from Paul and Sandy Saturday, February 18 — 10:00am Franz Schubert San Francisco Performances Inc. Herbst Theatre San Francisco, California http://sfperformances.org Program: ASQ with lecturer, Robert Greenberg Schubert Quartet in G Major, D. 887, Op. posth. 161 (1826) Continue Reading
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ASQ New Releases!
With Strings Attached The Alexander String Quartet San Francisco Choral Artists Magen Solomon: San Francisco Choral Artists director Lawrence Ferlinghetti: poet, speaker Foghorn Classics: FCL-2006 Joyous, celebratory performances of exciting new works for chamber chorus and string quartet captured in superb recordings by Judith Sherman (Grammy-Winning 2011 Producer of the Year). This disc includes premieres… Continue Reading
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30th Anniversary Celebrations Continue
A relatively smooth week at SFSU recovering from the big festive concert weekend. Sunday took us back to Sonoma for a lovely Haydn/Beethoven/Schubert program. It was like “old home week” in the midst of so much wonderful new music. Jake Heggie’s stunningly beautiful “Into the Fire” for the ASQ’s 30th anniversary with the wondrous Joyce… Continue Reading
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About The Sonoma Classical Music Society
We told you about our Sonoma Classical Music Society concert on Wednesday, so we thought we should tell you a little more about this wonderful presenting organization. Founded in 2004 by George Ellman and Al Fisk, the mission of the Sonoma Classical Music Society is to sponsor a series of classical music concerts of the… Continue Reading
