Argus String Quartet, hailed as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile young ensembles, will perform at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11.
It is the third concert in the 2018-2019 Friends of Good Music performance series.
The quartet will perform works by Haydn and Janacek, as well as by living composers Ted Hearne, Christopher Theofanidis and Juri Seo.
Praised by the Calgary Herald for playing with “supreme melodic control and total authority” and “decided dramatic impact,” the quartet is committed to reinvigorating the audience-performer relationship through innovative concerts and diverse programming. It has been well-received, winning first prize at both the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, and the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition.
The quartet’s busy 2018-19 season takes it to 15 states across the country, featuring debut concerts at New York City’s Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and a return to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Additional season highlights include concerts at these venues: Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Concert series, Washington (D.C.) Performing Arts, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, UCLA’s Clark Memorial Library, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (University of Illinois at Urbana), Purdue Convocations (Purdue University), Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Fla., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Juneau (Alaska) Jazz and Classics.
Argus began the season with two June performances at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, collaborating with legendary pianists Misha Dichter and Leon Fleischer.
The Quartet’s core mission is to connect with and build up a community of engaged listeners, with the strong belief that today’s ensembles can honor the storied chamber music traditions of the past while forging a new path forward. In that spirit, the ensemble’s repertoire includes not just master works of the chamber music canon, but also a wide range of pieces by living composers.
In the fall of 2017, the Argus Quartet began a two-year appointment as the Graduate Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School, working closely with the Juilliard String Quartet.
Subscription tickets for the remainder of the Friends of Good Music season are still available. A basic subscription, one ticket to each of six concerts, is $102 at full price and $84 for senior citizens and St. Bonaventure employees. Single concert tickets are $20 at full price, $16 for senior citizens and SBU employees, and $5 for students.
For subscriptions, single tickets and information, call The Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.