We’ve got three concerts coming up in late Winter, early Spring:

If you’re an Oregon Symphony donor of at least $100, you can see us play the first movement of Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet (Kv. 465 in C major) on the Evelyn Nagel Donor Appreciation Concert at Portland Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, February 25th.  You’ll have received an invitation in the mail from the symphony already if you’re on their donor list.

On Friday, March 12  at 7:30 p.m. we’ll be performing the Haydn “Fifths” Quartet (Op. 76 no. 2) and the Mozart “Dissonance” Quartet (in it’s entirety) at one of the Oregon Symphony’s Friends of the Oregon Symphony Parties of Note events.

Finally, on Sunday, March 21 at 2:30 p.m. we’ll be performing the Haydn and Mozart quartets described above as well as Beethoven’s epic String Quartet Op. 59 no. 1 “Razumovsky” on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the Salem Public Library.

Our guest cellist for these concerts will be Trevor Fitzpatrick.

Trevor Fitzpatrick/Photo: Absolute Images

We’ll be presenting another lunchtime concert at the OHSU Auditorium as part of their annual concert series.  Replacing Heather Blackburn temporarily for this concert will be our guest cellist from the Oregon Symphony, Trevor Fitzpatrick.  We’re thankful that he’s able to join us!

Two great Classical works will be played on this concert – the first, a late work by Franz Joseph “Papa” Haydn, the father of the modern string quartet form, the Op. 76 no. 4 in B-flat major “Sunrise”.  The second is part of a collection of six late string quartets that were famously dedicated to Haydn, by his successor in string quartet mastery, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – in this case the K. 565 C major “Dissonant” quartet.

Complete information and directions available here.