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Harlem Quartet

Chesapeake 2010 Chamber Music Competition

Silver Medal Winner & Audience Choice Award Winner

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Sunday, June 13, 2010, 3:30 PM, Smith Theatre

Howard Community College, Columbia, MD

The Harlem Quartet Plays Ravel, Haydn, Marsalis & Strayhorn

The Harlem Quartet is one of America’s most exciting young chamber ensembles. Formed in 2006, they’ve already performed by invitation with the legendary Itzhak Perlman and played two command performances at the White House. In this concert, the Quartet will play works by Haydn and Ravel, music from Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls, and the jazz standard, Take the “A”Train.

Program:

Franz Haydn:  Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1, Erdody
Maurice Ravel:  Quartet in F Major
Wynton Marsalis:  At the Octoroon Balls

VII. Rampart St. Row House Rag

II. Mating Calls and Delta Rhythms

IV. Many Gone

V. Hellbound Highball

Billy Strayhorn:  Take the “A” Train

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The Harlem Quartet

Ilmar Gavilan, violin

Melissa White, violin

Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola

Desmond Neysmith, cello
Note: for Sunday’s concert, Paul Wiancko will be the cellist, substituting for Desmond Neysmith

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Video Clips:

Ravel, I:

Strayhorn: Take the ‘A” Train:

Schubert String Quintet, Mvt 1:

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chesapeakechambermusic.org/competition

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www.harlemquartet.com

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ABOUT THE HARLEM QUARTET

Be enthralled by these superb young artists exploring new ways for a string quartet to interact with audience.  By presenting varied repertoire and highlighting works by minority composers, the quartet is able to advance diversity, winning young and new audiences, by means of classical music.


The Harlem Quartet is an ensemble of first-place Laureates of the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players.  Dedicated to education and community engagement, the quartet serves as principal faculty at the Sphinx Performance Academy at Walnut Hill School in Massachusetts, and as visiting faculty at the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute at Wayne State University in Detroit.  The quartet opened its 2009-10 season as featured soloists on the national Sphinx Chamber Orchestra Tour.


In 2009 the quartet performed with Itzhak Perlman, by invitation, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The Quartet also toured Brazil for concerts in Rio de Janeiro and Recife, and made its London debut performing at the residence of the U.S. ambassador.


Most recently, the quartet played two command performances at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady.  In May 2010, the Harlem will be traveling to Caracas and Valencia, Venezuela to perform for and work with the internationally renowned El Sistema.  In the fall, the Quartet will begin a two-year residency at the New England Conservatory in Boston as winners of the NEC Professional String Quartet Program.

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