The Belcea Quartet, a young, British group considered one of the best quartets of its generation, will take the stage in Memorial Chapel Friday, March 6 at 8 p.m.
General admission tickets to the concert, which is free to members of the Union community, cost $20. Area students may attend for $8.
Violinists Corina Belcea-Fisher and Laura Samuel, cellist Antoine Lederlin and violist Krzysztof Chorzelsk will play pieces by Haydn, Schubert and Britten.
Established at the Royal College of Music in 1994, The Belcea Quartet won first prize at both the Osaka and Bordeaux International String Quartet Competitions in 1999. The ensemble also represented Great Britain in the European Concert Halls Organisation “Rising Stars” series for the 1999-2000 season, following which, it received the Chamber Music Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2001 and 2003.
The Belcea Quartet has an exclusive recording contract with EMI Classics and won the Gramophone Award for best debut recording in 2001. Most recently, the group recorded the Bartok quartets, for which it received the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany’s prestigious Echo Klassik Awards.
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