Concert Program
HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Op, 54, No. 2 ("Tost"), Hob. III57
(1732-1809) Vivace
Adagio
Minuet-Trio
Finale. Adagio-Presto-Adagio
BRITTEN String Quartet No. 2
(1913-1976) Allegro calmo, senza rigore
Vivace
Chacony: sostenuto
INTERMISSION
SCHUBERT Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956 No. Op. Posth, 163
(1797-1828) Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo, Presto-Trio. Andante sostenuto
Allegretto
HARUMI RHODES, violin
EDWARD DUSINBERRE, violin
ANDRÁS FEJÉR, cello
RICHARD O'NEILL, viola
DAVID REQUIRO, cello
Artists
TAKÁCS QUARTET
The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its fiftieth anniversary season.
Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about projects including a new concerto for them and the Colorado Music Festival orchestra by Gabriela Lena Frank. In November the group will release its latest Hyperion project, ‘Flow’ by Nokuthula Ngwenyama. A new album with pianist Marc Andre Hamelin will be released in the spring featuring works by Florence Price and Antonín Dvořák.
The Takács maintains a busy international touring schedule. The group’s North American engagements include concerts in New York, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Lajolla, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Albuquerque, Tucson, Portland and Princeton.
DAVID REQUIRO
Winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Violoncello Competition and the Gaspar Cassadó International Violoncello Competition, David Requiro has appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and numerous orchestras across North America. His Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Hall was followed by a critically acclaimed San Francisco Performances recital at the Herbst Theatre. Soon after making his Kennedy Center debut, he completed a cycle of Beethoven’s cello sonatas at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he has performed with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and is a founding member of the Baumer String Quartet. Requiro serves as Associate Professor of Cello and Chair of String Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he joined faculty in 2015.