This edition of the program focuses on the finale of the second annual Young Chamber Musicians Competition held on the campus of Davidson College in North Carolina. In May of 2015 the finalists in the two divisions of the competition gathered in Tyler-Tallman Hall in the Sloan Music Center. They included a string quartet from Raleigh and two from the Chicago area, as well as a saxophone quartet from Rochester, performing music ranging from Bach to Bartok.
ANTONIN DVORAK: Movements from String Quartet in F
Philharmonic Association Quartet
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Movements from String Quartet in F minor
Philharmonic Association Quartet
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 64 in D
Quartetrilateral
ANTONIN DVORAK: String Quartet in No. 9 D minor
Quartetrilateral
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Italian Concerto
Farrago 4 Saxophone
PIERRE MAX DUBOIS: Quartet for Saxophones (Overture and 3rd Movement)
Farrago 4 Saxophone
LUDWIG BEETHOVEN: Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 in B flat
Quartet Fuoco
BELA BARTOK: String Quartet No. 4 in C 5th Movement
Quartet Fuoco
MAURICE RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major
Kontras Quartet
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: String Quintet in C Minor
Frances Hsieh, violin
Jenny Blickenderfer Weiss, violin
Ben Weiss, viola
Nonoko Okada, viola
Timothy O’Malley, cello
Mandy Blickensderfer Andreasen, cello