Ticket Information:
Tickets: $25
ALL FOUR CONCERTS FOR $75.00, must be purchased on or before November 17th. TWO TICKETS TO ANY CONCERT FOR $40.00.
Baruch students : FREE
CUNY ID HOLDERS: $15
Students and seniors:$15

Description:

Program: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2
String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat major, Op. 67
String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op. 88


As Baruch Performing Arts Center’s resident chamber music group and perennial favorite, the Alexander String Quartet returns to BPAC in celebration of its 27th year. The Alexander String Quartet has secured its standing among the world’s premier ensembles by being widely admired for its interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich; as well as advocating new music through commissions and premieres. They have released several CDs to tremendous critical acclaim, including BMG Classics’ nine-CD set of the Beethoven cycle. Their extensive concert calendar has taken them to destinations throughout Europe, North America and parts of Asia.In celebration of their two decades of service to Baruch College as the center’s resident chamber music ensemble, they were awarded the College’s Presidential Medals. In addition to performances, the quartet leads an extensive arts education program for the students of Baruch College.

The NY Times called them “an unusually fine group – musically, technically, in just about any way one wants to view it”; and The Washington Post commented “The Alexander String Quartet combines the spark of youth with a singleness of purpose... The musicians' controlled exuberance was unflagging and consequently produced superlative accounts of Beethoven, Bartók and Mendelssohn."

Alexander String Quartet
Zakarias Grafilo, violin
Frederick Lifsitz, violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola
Sandy Wilson, cello

Guest Artists
Toby Appel, viola
Adrian Fung, cello *
Joan-Enric Lluna, clarinet
David Samuel, viola *
Roger Woodward, piano

* members of the Afiara String Quartet