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Keele Concerts Society present Kreutzer Quartet
20 November 2013 7.30pm Westminster Theatre, Chancellor’s Building
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets.
They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates.
As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. They are Artists in Association at Quartet at York University, and at Wiltons Music Hall. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives.
Miroslav Spasov, composer, writes instrumental and interactive electroacoustic music. He teaches Electroacoustic Composition and Computer Music Techniques in the Music/Music Technology Programme at Keele University. Vesna Ayama was written for Kreutzer Quartet celebrating the hundreth anniversary of the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 1913 in Paris.
Programme for the evening:
Beethoven G Major Quartet Op 18 No 2
Miroslav Spasov Vesna Ayama (World Premiere)
Stravinsky Three Pieces
Beethoven F Major Quartet Op 18 No 2
Tickets: £14, £7 concessions (students, unemployed, young people aged 17/18), 16 and under free entrance with paying adult
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