Mill Valley welcomes the Miró Quartet again. The Quartet formed in the fall of 1995 at Oberlin. It met with immediate success, winning the first prize at the 50th annual Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April 1996, and the following month taking both the first and grand prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. This group began gaining international attention after taking first prize at the 1998 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2000. In 2005 the Miró also received the Cleveland Quartet Award. The Quartet is currently Faculty String Quartet–in–Residence at The University of Texas at Austin, and will perform a premiere of a newly commissioned quartet by Kevin Puts, also at U. of Texas.
www.miroquartet.com

Theme: America – the Light: Charles Ives Quartet #1 “A Revival Service”; A new work by Kevin Puts with intro by the composer; Dvorak Quartet in F major, op. 96 “American”

Violinist Corey Cerovsek began violin studies at age five. He graduated at 12 from the University of Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music and was accepted by Josef Gingold as a student and enrolled at Indiana University, where he received bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and music at age 15, masters in both at 16, and completed his doctoral course work in mathematics and music at age 18. Corey performs on the “Milanollo” Stradivarius of 1728. He has performed with orchestras all over the world. In recital, Corey appears regularly at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Gardner Museum in Boston, and Italy’s Spoleto Festival. He has also played in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra “Debut Series,” and at Wigmore Hall in London and performed at the Verbier Festival and Tanglewood in 2006.
www.artsmg.com/cervosek

Janacek; Brahms- g major; Faure –A major; Wieniawski - Fantasie Brilliante

Taking its name from the Greek god of the West Wind, the group first gained distinction in 1995, when, one year after its formation, it won both the First and Grand Prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition becoming the first wind quintet in the competition’s 22-year history to do so. Comprised of graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale School of Music, Eastman, and The Juilliard School, the Zéphyros Winds is now based in Manhattan. Zéphyros Winds is recognized as one of the nation’s leading chamber ensembles with appearances across the country at major concert venues, including Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, The Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and the “Great Performers Series” at Lincoln Center.
www.Zephyroswinds.com

Classic Wind Repertoire: Milhaud: “Le Cheminée du Roi René”; Britten: “Pan”; Debussy: “Syrinx”; Szervánszky: “Fúvósötös”; Ligeti: “Six Bagatelles”; Ravel: “Le Tombeau de Couperin”

By winning a number of prestigious competitions – Munich, Evian and Reggio Emilia– the Mandelring Quartet of Germany currently appears in the world’s great concert halls. In addition to many engagements in Germany, the quartet has appeared in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Madrid, Paris and Vienna, as well as New York, Vancouver, Sao Paulo, Algiers, Beirut, Damascus, P'yongyang & Ramallah. Exciting musical discoveries are often to be found in their repertoire, e.g. the works of the early Romantic French composer Georges Onslow, or Friedrich Gernsheim, a close friend of Brahms. Currently, the Mandelring Quartet is recording Shostakovich’s complete string quartets.
www.mandelringquartett.de

Tchaikovsky S. Q. #3, op. 30 ; Shostakovich S.Q. #7, op. 108; Beethoven S.Q. , op. 59, #3

We welcome again the Altenberg Trio Wien. Since its ‘official’ debut during the Salzburg Mozart Week (January 1994). It has become one of the few full-time piano trios in the world of chamber music and, in over 900 performances, earned the reputation of one of the most daring and consistent ensembles in this category. Its repertory comprises no less than 250 piano trios, among them numerous pieces which the Altenberg Trio first performed itself. The ensemble is trio in residence of Vienna´s Conservatory and Gesellschaft der Musik-freunde.
www.altenbergtrio.at/index_e.php

Beethoven: Variations on "Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu", op. 121a; Beethoven: "Ghost" Trio, op. 70 #1; Schubert: Trio in Bb, op. 99.

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