The Holy Trinity Concert Series together with

The Edmonton Recital Society presents:

Vaughan String Quartet
with Janet Scott Hoyt, piano

Vladimir Rufino  Violin
Mattia Berrini  Violin
Fabiola Amorim  Viola
Silvia Buttiglione  Cello

Sunday, February 21,  2016
2 PM
Admission by donation

Holy Trinity Anglican Church
10037 84 Avenue  Edmonton, AB

Program

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791), String Quartet K. 465 in C major (Dissonance Quartet)

Anton Webern (1883-1945), Langsamer Satz

Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Piano Quintet Op. 44 in E flat major
-with Janet Scott Hoyt

Acknowledged by the press for its “youthful energy, seasoned experience, invigorating playing and soulful interpretations”, Edmonton-based Vaughan String Quartet is one of the most active among the young chamber music groups of western Canada, having collaborated with many of Alberta’s music societies and artists such as the Banff Centre for Performing Arts, Edmonton Opera, Western Canadian Music Awards with classical accordionist Antonio Peruch, Edmonton Verdi Festival, composer Robert Rival (former composer in residence for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra), pianist Sarah Ho, University of Alberta Symphony Orchestra, Alberta College Conservatory of Music, and the St. Albert Chamber Music Recital Series. The group has received reviews from the Edmonton Journal and St. Albert Gazette and has appeared in live radio broadcast (CBC Radio Canada) and television (City TV and L’Alberta en Bref).

The Vaughan String Quartet was Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre – Banff, AB (Canada) during the Winter Program (March 2014) and the Late Fall Program (November 2014), presenting concerts and recitals and collaborating with composers in residence. The group played its first international concert in May 2015 in New York City for the PAMAR (Pan American Musical Art Research), as first Canadian group ever invited to perform for this organization. In June 2015 the quartet was recipient of the Luminato Festival String Quartet Fellowship in Toronto and was part of R. Murray Schafer’s Apocalypsis which was recorded live by CBC and will be released in 2016.

Such an intense performing activity has brought the Vaughan String Quartet to some of the most important concert halls in North America such as the Philip T. Young in Victoria (BC), the Festival Hall in Calgary (AB), the Winspear Centre in Edmonton (AB), the Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre, the Symphony Space in New York (NY) and the Sony Centre in Toronto (ON).

Since 2013 the Vaughan String Quartet regularly organizes recitals and concert series in Edmonton, inviting musicians from all over Canada, U.S. and Brazil, and has been recipient of the Project Grant for Artists by the Edmonton Arts Council for two consecutive seasons. Their 2015-2016 main series is focused on Canadian compositions and a new piece commissioned by the quartet to Edmonton–based composer Joseph Lai will be premiered in May 2016.

During various occasions the Vaughan String Quartet has been coached by the members of the Cecilia, the Lafayette, the Dover, and the Penderecki String Quartet, by Gerald Stanick (former violist of the Fine Art Quartet), by Laura Andriani (Quatuor Alcan) and by Petr Holman (Zemlinsky String Quartet).

Besides their performance schedule, the members of the Vaughan String Quartet conduct a String Quartet Course at the Alberta College Conservatory of Music – MacEwan University.