The Penderecki String Quartet in concert with Kathleen Solose

The Department of Music presents:

The Penderecki String Quartet in concert with Kathleen Solose, piano
Music by Haydn, McIntyre and Shostakovich
Sunday, October 16
3:00 p.m.
Convocation Hall, Peter MacKinnon Building

Tickets available at the door
Adults: $25
Seniors: $20
Students: $10

Program
Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D Major Op.20 no.4
David MacIntyre, new work for string quartet (2016)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor Op.57

The Penderecki String Quartet, approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail). Their recent schedule has included concerts in New York (Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Los Angeles (REDCAT at Disney Hall), St. Petersburg, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb, Atlanta, as well as appearances at international festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, and China. The PSQ champions music of our time, performing a wide range of repertoire from Haydn to Zappa as well as premiering over 100 new works to date. Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity,” the PSQ’s diverse discography includes the chamber music of Brahms and Shostakovich (Eclectra and Marquis labels) and their recently released Bartok cycle. They enter their 20th year as Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

Kathleen Solose is an accomplished solo pianist and chamber musician. She received numerous Canada Council grants for study abroad. Unanimous first-prize winner of the Casagrande International Competition in Italy and winner of CBC Canada’s National Auditions for both solo and chamber music, Kathleen has appeared in recital and with orchestras in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, the United States, and Canada. She has recorded for RAI-TV, Radio Svizzera Italiana, American Public Radio and CBC. Her recordings include sonatas by Chopin and Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, as well as virtuoso duo piano works with the Solose Duo, which has performed in Hungary, Russia, the US and Canada. Kathleen Solose is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and pianist and artistic director of the Elixir Ensemble, which is presenting its eighth concert season in 2016-17.

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