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This Sunday the Arnica Quartet will be performing on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the main branch of the Salem Public Library. The concert is at 2:30 in the afternoon, and is free to the public.
The big finish piece for the concert is Beethoven’s Op. 59 no. 1 – part of a set of [...]
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Today I had two great Mozart experiences, and they were in two very different situations, but they shared similarities despite their different settings.
The first: Mozart’s great Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. What a sparkling jewel of perfection this concerto is! And as played by Angela Hewitt, it is polished to its highest luster. [...]
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Saturday, December 19th, the quartet played the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon as part of the Newport Symphony’s 2009-2010 season. We were invited by the NSO’s music director Adam Flatt, who Heather and I know well from his years as an apprentice conductor with the Oregon Symphony over a decade ago. He asked [...]
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For those of you who come early to quartet concerts (why an hour early, people?) and end up watching the ensemble doing some last minute touch ups but not really knowing what’s going on, I posted a 4 minute recording of our pre-concert soundcheck/rehearsal for the opening of Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet at the Salem [...]
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If you’re looking for something to do today that involves great chamber works, then seeing the Arnica Quartet at the Salem Public Library might be just the ticket. What’s more, the concert is FREE! We’re being presented by Camerata Musica of Salem, and the program features three great works for string quartet:
Mozart – Adagio & [...]
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On January 28th at 12 Noon, the Arnica Quartet (of which I’m a member) will be playing a concert at the OHSU Auditorium which will feature two works off the beaten path of the standard repertoire.
The first is the Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, of Mozart. It’s a pretty severe work in terms of its [...]
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Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of Chamber Music Northwest, my string quartet [the Arnica Quartet] got the opportunity to get a two-hour coaching with an internationally-renowned chamber musician – Steven Tenenbom of the Orion Quartet and Opus One piano quartet. It was a great experience for us to get some high-level feedback on our work [...]
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Yesterday my quartet (the Arnica Quartet) played an early Mozart quartet (the G major, K. 157) and the great second string quartet of Leos Janacek, subtitled Intimate Letters. The concert was on a series presented by the OHSU Foundation, and took place in the acoustically and visually lovely OHSU Auditorium up on Marquam Hill.
The [...]
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Just a shameless plug: the Arnica Quartet will be giving a performance at the Loucks Lecture Hall of the Salem Public Library (central branch on Liberty Street) on Sunday, September 16th at 3:00 p.m.
We’ll be playing an early Haydn quartet (Op. 20 no. 4), the lone quartet of Claude Debussy, and the Brahms Piano Quintet [...]
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Last night the Arnica Quartet performed as part of the new (and hopefully annual) MarchMusic series held at the new OHSU medical office building (now informally known as the “Tram building”). It was an encouraging experiment. The lobby of this new LEED platinum-certified structure has surprisingly wonderful acoustics – we could hear each other very [...]
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The Arnica Quartet will present a concert at the new OHSU Center for Health and Healing [directions] in the South Waterfront district on Wednesday, March 14th at 7:00 p.m.
We’ll be performing the string quartet of Claude Debussy and Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18 no. 6.
This concert is part of a March series of [...]
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