Vaughan String Quartet: 4 and More Series

The Vaughan String Quartet Presents:

     Vaughan String Quartet and Mathew Walton – Piano
4 and More Series @7:30pm February 14, 2015
      Free Admission
      Holy Trinity Anglican Church
      10037 84 Ave NW.
      Edmonton – AB (Canada)

      Program:
H. Vieuxtemps: String Quartet No. 02 in C Major, Op. 51
R. Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

Founded in Edmonton on February 2013, with its debut concert on March 24, 2013 at the Robertson-Wesley United Church in Edmonton, the Vaughan String Quartet has immediately received an enthusiastic response from the audience and the Edmonton music community. 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 (L’Alberta en Bref).

With less than two years together, the quartet is already part of the musical scene of Alberta having collaborated with many of Alberta’s music societies and artists such as Edmonton Opera, Edmonton Verdi Festival, the Banff Centre, Western Canadian Music Award with classical accordionist Antonio Peruch, composer Robert Rival (former composer in residence for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra), University of Alberta Symphony Orchestra, Alberta College Conservatory of Music, and the St. Albert Chamber Music Recital Series. 

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

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 quartet has been invited to perform its first international concert in 2015 in New York City for the Pan American Music Art Research (PAMAR).

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.

A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University’s music program as a student of Anya Alexeyev, Mathew Walton completed his Master’s degree in Performance at the University of Ottawa, where he studied with Andrew Tunis. Highlights of his studies have included performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the WLU symphony orchestra, as well as representing Ontario at the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals national finals in Moncton, New Brunswick, in 2007. His areas of specialization include the works of Franz Liszt, Frederic Rzewski, and Canadian composer John Burge.

In addition to his solo work, Mathew is in demand as a vocal, instrumental, and choral accompanist. Outside of performance, Mathew has also completed a Master’s degree in Musicology, with a research focus on the genre of the piano paraphrase and musical narrative. He currently resides in Edmonton, where he is undertaking doctoral studies in music performance at the University of Alberta in the studio of Janet Scott Hoyt. In 2013, he studied the performance of German lieder at the Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien, Austria. The recent winner of the University of Alberta’s concerto competition, he performed John Burge’s Prelude Variations with the University of Alberta Symphony in February, 2014.