We're excited to announce highlights of our 2024-25 season! Our October concert features the world premiere of Elena Ruehr's String Quartet No. 12, "Moving Shapes" alongside Ruth Crawford's groundbreaking String Quartet 1931 and F.J. Haydn's String Quartet in D major, Op. 71 No. 2.
Pianist Victor Cayres joins us in January for Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57, which pays homage to the music of J.S. Bach.
Our residency at the Laconia Gallery in the South End features the work of composer and multimedia artist Scott Ordway. Scott has curated a concert to accompany an exhibition of his photography, Images from the End of Rain, which reflects on the aftermath of the 2020 California wildfires.
Our Kaisahan Initiative continues with our 2024-25 composer-in-residence Van Anh Vo. Her work The Odyssey was written "marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and explores the personal and spiritual journeys of the Boat People escaping war and abandoning their lives in the search for freedom with an alien and unknowable future."
The season finale ends with three lyric masterpieces: Mozart String Quartet in C major K 465, George Walker String Quartet No. 1, and Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 with Steve Ansell of the Muir String Quartet and principal viola of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
October 27, 2024 at 4pm First Church Boston
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major, Op. 71 No. 2 Ruth Crawford String Quartet 1931 Elena Ruehr String Quartet No. 12, "Moving Shapes"
January 2025 TBD Boston University College of Fine Arts
Anton Webern Langsamer Satz Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 with Victor Cayres, piano
February 7, 2025 at 7pm Laconia Gallery
Scott Ordway: Images from the End of Rain Photography exhibit opening concert
J.S. Bach Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor (1723) John Dowland Lachrimae arr. for string quartet (1604) Peter Greyson “Cantus” from String Quartet No. 3 (2022)
J.S. Bach Largo from Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in C Major (1720) Josquin de Prez Nymphes des bois arr. for string quartet by Scott Ordway (1497) Arvo Pärt Summa (1977)
J.S. Bach Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, arr. for viola (1723) Scott Ordway Ash / Bloom, adapted from The End of Rain (2022) Beethoven Grosse Fuge (1825)
J.S. Bach Adagio from Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in C Major (1720) Gregorio Allegri Miserere arr. for string quartet (ca. 1630) Philip Glass VI. Closing from String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima” (1985)
April 3, 2025 at 7:30pm Boston University Tsai Center for the Performing Arts
Van Anh Vo The Odyssey
June 1, 2025 at 4pm First Church Boston
W.A. Mozart String Quartet in C major, K 465 "Dissonance" George Walker String Quartet No. 1 (1946) Johannes Brahms String Quintet in G major, Op. 111 with Steve Ansell, viola
