Fine Arts Quartet

Saturday, October 6 - 8 PM
Market Square Church
     Beethoven, Quartet in F Major, Op.18, No.1
     Shostakovich, Quartet No.11 in F Minor
     Grieg, Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27
Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy.



The Bard Festival Quartet
with ZHENG ZHOU, Baritone

Saturday, November 3 - 8 PM
Market Square Church

Pieter C. Kooistra Memorial Concert
     Bach, Prelude from the Suite No. 2 for Solo Cello
     Elgar, String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 83 (1918)
     Barber, Dover Beach for String Quartet and Baritone
The Bard Festival Quartet joins forces with Metropolitan Opera baritone Zheng Zhou in a moving program honoring the memory of Pieter Kooistra.



Tanya Bannister, Pianist

Sunday, January 20 - 4 PM
Whitaker Center
     Bach, Sheep May Safely Graze (Egon Petri transcription)
     Brahms, Handel Variations, Op. 24
     Christopher Theofanidis, All dreams begin with the horizon
     Chopin, Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 44
     Chopin, Nocturne KK IVa,  Nr. 16
     Chopin, Ballade No. 4
Concert Artists Guild prize winner Tanya Bannister performs a rich program of works from three centuries.



Jupiter String Quartet
Cleveland Quartet Award 2007

Sunday, February 24 - 4 PM
Market Square Church
     Mendelssohn, Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80
     Britten, Quartet No. 3
     Beethoven, Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
In addition to winning the distinguished Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jupiter Quartet has also been selected to join Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two for a three-year residency beginning in 2007. The Quartet has also captured the Netherlands America Prize, the Grand Prize in the Fishoff National Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize in the 8th Banff International String Quartet Competition.



Lark Chamber Artists

Saturday, March 15 - 8 PM
Whitaker Center
     Wolf, Italian Serenade
     Daniel Bernard Romain(DBR), String Quartet No. 5, (Rosa Parks)
     Dvorák, Piano Quintet
The Lark's program includes the stunning homage to Rosa Parks by Daniel Bernard Roumain, the widely publicized Haitian American composer known in the rock world as DBR.



The Emerson Quartet
Recipient of eight Grammy Awards

Friday, April 18 - 8 PM
Market Square Church
     Shostakovich, Quartet No. 7
     Janácek, Quartet No. 2,"Intimate Letters"
     Bright Sheng, Commissioned work
     Bartók, Quartet No. 3
"... with musicians like this there must be some hope for humanity." — The Times (London)