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| La Catrina String Quartet Sunday, October 21, 2007, 2:30 p.m. Performing Arts Center General admission: $15, Students $5 Founded in 2001, the La Catrina Quartet has a triple mission: to work closely with living composers in order to promote the performance of new music, to promote Mexican and Latin- American art music and to perform the masterworks of the string quartet repertoire. Its members have played as soloists with a variety of orchestras in Mexico and the United States and given recitals in Japan, England, the United States, and Mexico. One of the quartet's most important achievements is the publication by Arsis Press of Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched, a string quartet written for them by composer Zae Munn, which they premiered in Chicago's College of Performing Arts, September 2003. They have recorded works by Mexican composer Germán Romero, under the Quindecim label, and collaborated on a recording of Mozart's clarinet quintet with renowned Cuban clarinetist Alfredo Valdés-Brito. In the summer of 2005, they premiered works by composers Tom Janson and John Ferrito at the Kent Blossom Music Festival as part of a grant to promote the works of outstanding Ohio composers. On November 2005, they were semifinalists at the fourth International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition. The La Catrina Quartet performs regularly at San Miguel de Allende's chamber music series, Pro Música, and last fall they were in residency for two weeks in Hickory, North Carolina, where they were featured in the Western Piedmont Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Classics series. The La Catrina Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence of the Conservatorio de Las Rosas' summer quartet program. |
