Vaughan String Quartet: War Memories
The Vaughan String Quartet Presents:
War Memories
Saturday, November 14 at 7:30pm
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
10087 84 Avenue NW
Featuring:
A. Webern: “Langsamer Satz”
F. Schubert: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat
E. MacMIllan: String Quartet in C
Tickets:
General Admission: $25.00
Students: $15.00
Children under 5: $5.00
Tickets available here.
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 Award 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 (L’Alberta en Bref).
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) and by Laura Andriani (Quatuor Alcan).
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 Apocalypsis which was recorded live by CBC and will be released in 2016.
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.