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AIZURI QUARTET Thursday, February 22, 2024
Formed in 2012 and combining four distinctive musical personalities into a powerful collective, the Aizuri Quartet draws its name from “aizuri-e,” a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail.
The Aizuri benefitted from residencies between 2014 and 2017 at the Ravinia Festival, the Curtis Institute, and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
The Aizuri won the 2015 Wigmore Hall (UK) and the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competitions – and, in 2022, the Cleveland Quartet Award.
The New York Times applauded them as “genuinely exciting,” “imaginative,” and “a quartet of expert collaborators.”
| Reena Esmail | Ragamala (2018) |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81, No. 3 Capriccio in E Minor |
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| Judd Greenstein | Four on the Floor (2006) |
| Silvestre Revueltas | String Quartet No. 4, Música de Feria (1932) |
| Clara Schumann | Die stille Lotosblume from Sechs Lieder, Op. 13 No. 6 (1844) |
| Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel | String Quartet in E-flat Major (1834) |
