Events
2008
January 12
iO Quartet w/ Mario Diaz de León: US premieres of works by the master Romanian composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, and two recent quartets by young New York composer Mario Diaz de León
Roulette: 20 Greene - Between Canal and Grand - NY, NY - N.B.! New Time: 8:30PM
iO: iNSIDE Out Chamber Music
January 27
Tribute to a Master: Directly inspired by the work of Haydn, Mozart's string quartets are at once operatic in character and intimate in emotion. Lyrical drama, perfect structure - his music seems to give us everything, all the time.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
February 24
How Sweet the Sound: Beauty while challenging traditional tonality, we explore microtonality in String Quartet no. 4 "Amazing Grace" by Ben Johnston.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
March 2
Concert in Honor George Sopkin: iO performs works dear to the Fine Arts Quartet cellist George Sopkin.
Works by Haydn, Johnston, and Britten
The Bay School - 3:00 - Blue Hill, ME
Admission is free.
March 3-4
Mini-residency in Penobscot Bay schools
Blue Hill, ME
March 23
Musical Sparks: From static electricity to lightning bolts, Britten's 2nd String Quartet sweeps the listener along on a journey with a wide range of energy and momentum.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
March 31
MATA Festival: iO performs Mario Diaz de León's "Moonblood" on this festival of music by emerging young composers
The Brooklyn Lyceum - 8:00
227 4th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11215
$15/10
April 1
Purchase Faculty Composers Concert: Laura Kaminsky's Transformations II
Purchase, NY
Admission is free
April 10
Purchase Spring Recital: Works of Haydn, Punchatz, Bartok, Britten
Purchase Conservatory - 7:30
Purchase, NY
Admisson is free
April 27
Earth and Fog: Bartok String Quartet No. 3 – Dance of the peasants, visions of night: Bartok's language, concise and complex, evokes some of the most visceral and human emotions in chamber music. Musical cave paintings, of the modernist sort.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
May 4
Yellowsprings Chamber Music Competition Finals
First Presbyterian Church - 7:30
314 Xenia Avenue - Yellowsprings, OH
$18/6
May 8
Helmut Lachenmann Festival at Oberlin College: iO performs Helmut Lachenmann's masterpiece String Quartet No. 3 "Grido" in a weeklong festival of his music with the composer in attendance
Finney Chapel - Oberlin, OH 8 PM
May 25
Made in America: Dvorák String Quartet in F op. 96 “American” - An ocean journey, a new life, a new world and a new music - excitement bittersweetened by homesickness. Dvorak said: "Whatever I have written in America...always remains Bohemian music," but the anticipation and anxiety of new journeys remain.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
June 6
American Composers Alliance Festival 2008
Works by Richard Brooks, Jan Gilbert, and premieres by Robert Ceely and John Eaton
Symphony Space Thalia Theater - 7:30
$15/5
June 22
The Love Letter: Robert Schumann Schumann's love for his wife Clara shines in his 3rd String Quartet, whose main musical material recalls her name. At times joyous, longing, and anxious, the piece displays both Schumann's talent and his neuroses.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
July 27
So You Want to Write a Fugue?: The iO Quartet illuminates a seemingly
academic musical form with alternately emotional, spiritual, and humorous works by Pachelbel, Bach, Mozart, Charles Ives, and Glenn Gould.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
August 12-17
Monadnock Music: iO is Monadnock Music's 2008 Fellowship Ensemble. Performing various concerts throughout Peterborough and the Monadnock region. Exact dates and locations TBD
Peterborough, ME
September 28
Birth of a String Quartet: A whirlwind tour of Haydn's 83 string quartets, many of which are still some of the wittiest and most inventive quartets ever written.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
October 26
An Autumnal Masterpiece: Brahms Clarinet Quintet - The clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld inspired Brahms to come out of retirement near the end of his life and compose one of his greatest and most passionate works.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
November 23
The French Legacy: Ravel's single string quartet was the piece that launched his brilliant career. The iO Quartet also explores works by Ravel's French compatriots.
The Roger Smith Hotel - 4 PM
47th and Lexington, NYC
$15
December 11
String Theory @ Symphony Space
Collaboration with David Leisner: Works by Villa-Lobos, Leisner, and a Quartet TBA
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