HARLEM QUARTET

Clarion Concert Series

Tickets start at $25

Ilmar Gavilán, violin
Melissa White, violin
Jaime Amador, viola
Felix Umansky, cello

Harlem Quartet advances diversity in classical music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. Their mission to share their passion with a wider audience has taken them around the world; from a 2009 performance at The White House for President Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama, to performances in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia, and South Africa. The musically versatile ensemble has been praised for its “panache” by the New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.”

Program:

Francesco Molino

Grand Trio Concertante, Op. 45 No. 2
I. Allegro

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

String Quartet in E-flat Major
I. Adagio ma non troppo
II. Allegretto
III. Romanze
IV. Allegro molto vivace

Dizzy Gillespie (arranged by Dave Glenn and HQ)

A Night in Tunisia

Guido López-Gavilán

Cuarteto en Guaguanco

Caroline Shaw

Entr’acte

Benjamin Britten

String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36
I. Allegro calmo, senza rigore
II. Vivace
III. Chacony: sostenuto