{"id":576,"date":"2015-03-30T23:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=576"},"modified":"2023-02-26T00:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:22:51","slug":"salon-2015-01-25-excelsa_quartet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=576","title":{"rendered":"Salon 2015-01-25 “Excelsa_Quartet”"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 25, 2015:\"Excelsa_Quartet-342\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Excelsa Quartet!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

ExcelsaQuartet@gmail.com<\/a>
\nwww.ExcelsaQuartet.com<\/a><\/p>\n

“Fresh and youthful sounding… projected power and excitement.”
\n– The Washington Post<\/h3>\n

First Prize winners of “The Provincie Limburg Prijs” along with the \u201cEMCY Artprize\u201d at the Charles Hennen 26th International Chamber Music Competition for Strings in The Netherlands,<\/p>\n

Excelsa Quartet is now the Graduate Fellowship String Quartet at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD.
\nExcelsa Quartet was formed in January of 2009 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. They continued their studies at the Konservatorium Dreilinden in Luzern, Switzerland, and in the Professional Quartet Training Program under the tutelage of the Alban Berg Quartet at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Tanz K\u00f6ln in Germany. In 2011, Excelsa Quartet won the \u2018Prix du Jury \u201cJeunes Musiciens\u201d et du Public\u2019 at the Illzach 17th International Chamber Music Competition in France.
\nAs regular participants in the BrittenPears Young Artists Programme (Aldeburgh, UK) since 2009, the Quartet has worked with Isabel Charisius (Alban Berg Quartet), Ilan Gronich (Israel Quartet), Sebastian Hamann, the Pavel Haas Quartet, and Quatuor Mosaiques. They have also attended the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar in Stanford, CA (2014) and the McGill International String Quartet Academy in Montreal, QC (2014).
\nFor the 2014\/15 Season, Excelsa Quartet was granted a Fall residency at the St. Lawrence String Quartet\u2019s \u201cEmerging String Quartet Program\u201d at Stanford University, giving them a unique opportunity to perform in various concert and community settings in Stanford, CA. Other season highlights in the Washington DC metro area include performances at the Arts Club of Washington, Kent Chamber Music, and \u201cCommon Tone\u201d series at Busboys and Poets.
\nThe Quartet has had the honor of working with members of the Guarneri Quartet, Left Bank Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, James Stern, Andr\u00e9 Roy, Roger Tapping (Juilliard Quartet), David Takeno, Lucy Chapman and world renowned conductor Benjamin Zander. They have also collaborated with the Miami String Quartet and with composers John Heiss and Wolfgang Rihm.
\nExcelsa Quartet takes its name from \u201cPicea excelsa\u201d, a distinct species of Northern European spruce trees used to make the top panel of fine string instruments. You may see more about the Quartet on their website: www.excelsaquartet.com<\/p>\n

Program:<\/h2>\n
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Alfred Schnittke: Quartet No. 3 (1983)<\/div>\n
I. Andante<\/div>\n
II. Agitato<\/div>\n
III. Pesante<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Franz Schubert: Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”<\/div>\n
I. Allegro<\/div>\n
II. Andanted con Moto<\/div>\n
III. Scherzo Allegro Molto<\/div>\n
IV. Presto<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 25, 2015: Excelsa Quartet! ExcelsaQuartet@gmail.com www.ExcelsaQuartet.com “Fresh and youthful sounding… projected power and excitement.” – The Washington Post First Prize winners of “The Provincie Limburg Prijs” along with the \u201cEMCY Artprize\u201d at the Charles Hennen 26th International Chamber Music Competition for Strings in The Netherlands, Excelsa Quartet is now the Graduate Fellowship String Quartet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5857,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}