FARMINGTON – The Arts Institute of Western Maine in collaboration with the University of Maine Farmington, is proud to sponsor a Maine homecoming concert by an outstanding group of young musicians, the Larchmere String Quartet, in Nordica Auditorium at UMF 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30.They will perform works by Haydn, Brahms and the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Admission $15; youth 18 and under and students with ID are free.
We have been able to capitalize on their Maine roots—in 2012 they were in residence at Bates College and the University of Southern Maine, and charter violist Rose Wolman is a Lewiston native—to lure this group of talented young women to Farmington during their May upcoming tour to Lenox, and Williams College in the Berkshires.
Founded at Indiana University in 2011, the quartet has achieved in three years significant international recognition as a dynamic and charismatic group. They are currently faculty in residence at the University of Evansville in Indiana, and its members—Jessica Tong and Alicia Choi, violins, Rose Wollman, viola, and Kirsten Jermé, cello–have performed at Washington’s Kennedy Center, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and in Leipzig, London and Tokyo. The quartet has appeared at the prestigious Banff Chamber Music Festival in Canada, and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and have their first CD in the works with Naxos.
Trained at major music conservatories—New England, Julliard, Curtis Institute, Eastman and Indiana University–they have been active both as a group and individually as performers and educators, and as passionate advocates for chamber music, both classical and contemporary, benefiting from collaborations with many recognized musicians such as members of the Cleveland and Brentano String Quartets. Their performances have been praised both for their technical musicianship and their audience appeal.
For more information about the concert, visit the AIWM webpage here. For more information about the Larchmere String Quartet, see their webpage here.
