The Artemis Quartet, which swept the top awards at
the German Music Competition in 1995, the Munich Competition
in 1996, and the Borciani Competition in 1997, will perform
on Sunday March 3, at 3 p.m. in Memorial Chapel, as part of
the Union College chamber concert series.
The program will feature Mozart's Quartet in G, K.
387; Ligeti's Quartet No. 1 (Metamorphoses
nocturnes); and Mendelssohn's Quartet in A minor, Op.
13, “Ist es Wahr?” (“Is it True?”).
On its North American debut tour as winner of the
Borciani International String Quartet Competition in 1998, the
Artemis Quartet performed nine concerts in twelve days. Its
subsequent tours in 2000 and 2001 included performances at Carnegie
Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Library of Congress, and the University
of California at Los Angeles.
In 1999, the young musicians accepted an invitation from
the Berlin Science Academy to live and work intensively for
three months with luminaries from other fields such as
physics, literature, art, history and mathematics. During this
time, the Artemis scheduled no concerts in order to concentrate on
this experience. The quartet resides in Berlin.
Tickets at $20, $8 for students, free to Union
students, are available in advance and at the door at 2 p.m. For more
information, call ext. 6131 or 372-3651.