| THE
DEGAS STRING QUARTET
with Rachel Heard, piano James
Dickenson, violin
Tamaki Higashi, violin
Simon Ertz, viola
Philip
von Maltzahn, violoncello
Thursday, September 22nd at 7:30 pm |
 Millsaps
faculty artist Rachel Heard
will join the Degas Quartet for a performance of the Fauré C Minor Piano
Quartet, Op. 15. Also on the program is one of Schubert's greatest quartets, "Death
and the Maiden." They will repeat this program on Sat., Sept. 24 on this
season's opening UBS Chamber Classics concert series in Hickory, NC.
Since
their founding at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 1999, the Degas
Quartet has emerged as one the nation's most exciting young string quartets.
Renowned for their energetic performances of the classical and contemporary quartet
repertoire, the Degas Quartet plays with vibrant intensity and exceptional musicianship.
A recipient of a 2004-2005 Residency
Grant from Chamber Music America, the Degas Quartet is based in Hickory, NC. The
quartet has performed in many of North Carolina's major chamber music venues,
including Brevard College, Blowing Rock, Appalachian State University, Wilmington,
and Hendersonville. Highlights of their distinguished
concert career include appearances in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and
Harris Hall at the Aspen Music Festival. The quartet studied the standard repertoire
with some of America's finest ensembles, including the Takacs, the Emerson, the
Juilliard, the Colorado, the Vermeer and the Cassatt Quartets. The
Degas Quartet has collaborated in concert with the Colorado Quartet, the Fry Street
Quartet, as well as the Jupiter Quartet. During the upcoming season they will
perform with Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo Quartet, and in 2005 National Public
Radio will feature the Degas Quartet performing with Jazz Bassist Christian McBride
at the Aspen Music Festival. Strong
advocates for the performance and composition of contemporary music, the Degas
Quartet has premiered numerous new works in venues such as New York's Music Under
Construction series, New York's WQXR Classical Radio, and the Gamper Contemporary
Music Festival at Bowdoin College. The quartet has worked closely with composer
Joan Tower, who revised her composition Elegy for the quartet's performance in
2004 with trombonist Haim Avitsur. In the upcoming seasons, the quartet has commissioned
new works by Laura Kaminsky, Shafer Mahoney, and Andrew Waggoner.
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