Goldmund Quartet
String Theory at the Hunter, in partnership with Lee University and the Hunter Museum of American Art, will continue its 15th season with the award-winning Goldmund Quartet. The concert will take place on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
“We are eager to welcome the Goldmund Quartet, one of the most sought after young quartets in the world, for their debut at String Theory,” says Dr. Gloria Chien, founder and artistic director of String Theory.
The performance will feature Borodin’s String Quartet No. 2 in D Major and Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major.
At 6 p.m., prior to the concert, the musicians will hold “Musical Dialogue, a conversation on their lives, inspirations, and the masterpieces being performed that evening.”
The Goldmund Quartet comprises artists Pinchas Adt, violin; Raphael Paratore, cello; Florian Schötz, violin; and Christoph Vandory, viola.
The Quartet is known to feature “exquisite playing” and “multi-layered homogeneity” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) in its interpretations of the great classical and modern works of the quartet literature. The Goldmund Quartet is now counted amongst the leading string quartets of the younger generation worldwide, reflected in their 2023/24 season calendar. Highlights include the Quartet’s debut at prestigious festivals such as Festival Dolomites, Settimane Musicali di Ascona and Viotti Festival in Vercelli, Italy. The ensemble will return to important halls such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam in a recital with pianist Fazil Say, to Tokyo Opera City as part of a tour of Japan as well as to North America for a tour that will take them to Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Vancouver.
The Quartet has been awarded the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize and the Karl Klinger Prize of the ARD competition in 2016 along with the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize and the Freiherr von Waltershausen Prize in 2020. Their new EP, “Prisma,” published on Berlin Classic’s Neue Meister series as a limited vinyl release, features contemporary works by Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Uno Helmersson alongside two newly commissioned pieces by Pascal Schumacher and Sophia Jani. Chamber music partners include artists such as Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Krichel, Alexey Stadler and Wies de Boevé, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Elisabeth Brauss, Maximilian Hornung, Frank Dupree, and Simon Höfele.
String Theory was founded in 2009 by Dr. Chien to expose new audiences to chamber music, invigorate the local classical music scene, and cultivate a future generation of music lovers.
Tickets for the Tuesday evening performance, sponsored in part by HK architects and the Tennessee Arts Commission, are on sale now through January 23 and are $45 for general admission, $35 for Hunter members, and $10 for students and music teachers.
To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit www.stringtheorymusic.org or call 414-2525.