Apr 22

Sun April 22, 2:00 pm
Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Halifax
Sensibility & Brio
Cecilia String Quartet
Collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales
This concert is made possible through a generous donation by Judith Grant

Cecilia String Quartet plays Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, No. 6, Allegro Assai (5:03)

Cecilia String Quartet plays Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, No. 6, Allegro Molto (5:39)

Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428
I. Allegro non troppo
I. Andante con moto
II. Menuetto & Trio
III. Allegro vivace

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Waltz No. 1 in A major, opus 54

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Slavonic Dance in E minor, opus 72, Arr. P. Klengel

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Hungarian Dance No. 5, Arr. D. Lederer

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Quartet in G major, opus 106
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio ma non troppo
III. Molto vivace
IV. Finale: Andante sostenuto – Allegro con fuoco

Cecilia String Quartet
Min-Jeong Koh, violin
Sarah Nematallah, violin
Caitlin Boyle, viola
Rachel Desoer, cello

The Cecilia String Quartet (CSQ) is one of Canada's most exciting young ensembles today.

Winner of the prestigious Banff competition in 2010, competing with nine of the world’s finest emerging string quartets, 2nd Prizewinners at the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and prizewinners at the Concours international de Quatuor à cordes de Bordeaux 2010, they are currently the Resident String Quartet at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.

In 2009, the CSQ was simultaneously in residence at the JMC House and at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, where the members each received their graduate diplomas under the guidance of André Roy.

The CSQ has performed in cities across North America and in Europe. They also toured Ontario, Québec and British Columbia with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada on their Desjardins Concert Series.

Highly interested in musical exploration and innovation, the CSQ embarked on the large scale project 'BLiM' (Breathing Life into Music), a month long residency in France generously supported by ProQuartet and the Centres Culturels de Rencontre Association in France and Europe (ACCR). The project culminated in the performance of two quartets by Théodore Dubois that were lost for the past century, as well as a new piece written for them by American composer Liam Wade.

They kicked off 2010 with a new large-scale project at the Banff Center for the Arts, involving collaborations with Common Sense Composers Collective and the Afiara String Quartet, and culminating in the premiere of four brand new quartets written for them.

Members of the CSQ have attended the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Juilliard School of Music in New York, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the Hochschule fur Musik und Theatre Munchen in Munich, Germany.

Min-Jeong Koh currently plays on the ca. 1767 Joannes Baptista Guadagnini violin on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts and would like to thank the anonymous donor and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.