The Verona Quartet: Jonathan Ong and Dorothy Ro, violins;  Abigail Rojansky, viola; Jonathan Dormand, cello. They will perform Maurice Ravel’s string quartet in G major; a suite of American jazz standards: Duke Ellington’s “Cotton Club Stomp,” Donald Heywood’s “I'm Coming Virginia,” Bix Beiderbecke’s “In the Dark,” Vincent Youmans’s “Tea for Two”; Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartet no. 9.

Felix MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 13, "Ist es wahr?" ("Is it true?")

Duke ELLINGTON Cotton Club Stomp

Donald HEYWOOD I'm Coming Virginia

Bix BEIDERBECKE In the Dark

Vincent YOUMANS Tea for Two

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet #9 in E Flat Major, Opus 117

REENA ESMAIL String Quartet - Ragamala
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER O virtus sapientiae (after Hildegard von Bingen)
MAURICE RAVEL String Quartet

The dazzling pipa virtuoso Wu Man joins the Verona String Quartet for a collaborative evening including Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1, solo works for pipa, including an original by Wu Man, and Tan Dun's dramatic Concerto for String Quartet and Pipa.

Program including Benedict Strahl, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich.

George Enescu Octet for Strings in C Major, Op. 7
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11
Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

WIth the Borromeo String Quartet

Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4

Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

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Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5

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Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130