Doric String Quartet At Segerstrom Center

 Thursday, February 13, 2020
Samueli Theater
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ 2019–2020 Chamber Music Series continues with Doric String Quartet on February 13, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. in Samueli Theater. The acclaimed ensemble is joined by piano virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin in a program that includes Hamelin’s Piano Quintet in addition to works by Sibelius and Dvořák. Quartet members include Alex Redington, violin; Ying Xue, violin; Hélène Clément, viola; and John Myerscough, cello.

Single tickets start at $29 and are available online at www.SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings of 10 or more, please call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds the Colburn Foundation for its support of the Chamber Music Series and its corporate partners including Kia Motors America, Official Automotive Partner; and United Airlines, Official Airline. This performance of the Doric String Quartet is underwritten by the E. Nakamichi Foundation.
 

PROGRAM NOTES

Hamelin: Piano Quintet
Sibelius: Quartet in D minor, “Voices intimae” op. 56
Dvořák: Piano Quintet, Op. 81, No. 2

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Doric String Quartet
Firmly established as one of the leading quartets of its generation, the Doric String Quartet receives enthusiastic responses from audiences and critics across the globe. Winner of the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan and 2nd prize at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy, the Quartet now performs in leading concert halls throughout Europe, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Konzerthaus, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Hamburg Laeiszhalle and De Singel, and is a regular visitor to Wigmore Hall. The Quartet tours annually to the United States, and made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2017.

Alongside main season concerts , , the Quartet , has performed at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzingen, Edinburgh, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Grafenegg, Aldeburgh, West Cork, Cheltenham, Delft, and Risør festivals, collaborating with artists including Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Alexander Melnikov, Pieter Wispelwey, Jonathan Biss, Chen Halevi, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien. In 2018, the Quartet took over the Artistic Directorship of the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival, a position in which they play a key role in implementing the Festival’s core mission of providing young professionals in the field of string chamber music with a week of intensive mentoring, coaching and development.

The Quartet recently performed John Adams’ Absolute Jest for String Quartet and Orchestra at the Vienna Konzerthaus with Adams conducting, and with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw and with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus Stenz. Their recording of the piece with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Peter Oundjian, released on Chandos in 2018, was named Recording of the Month in BBC Music Magazine and praised for the “sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity” of its performance. Future performances of the piece include with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joana Carneiro.

A highlight of the Quartet’s 2019/20 season programming was Hidden Agendas, the new piece written for them by Brett Dean. Given its world premiere in 2019, it was co-commissioned for the Doric by Musica Viva Australia, Berlin Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale, Edinburgh International Festival and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.. Other highlights of the season include a tour of Japan including performances in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya as well as tours to Israel and the USA. In Europe, the Quartet returns to the Wigmore Hall four times, where appearances include an all-Britten evening as well as a cycle of the late Schubert Quartets. Collaborations include performances of Chausson with Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien; a project that take to venues including the Vienna Konzerthaus, Musée du Louvre, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw.

Since 2010 the Doric Quartet has recorded exclusively for Chandos Records, with their releases covering repertoire ranging from Schumann to Korngold and Walton as well as works with orchestra, including Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro and John Adams’ Absolute Jest. The Quartet’s benchmark recording of the complete Britten String Quartets was released in 2019 and gathered glittering reviews across the board. Recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in conjunction with a series of performances at the Britten Weekend celebrations, the disc was named Album of the Week by The Sunday Times, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, while BBC Music Magazine saw praised the Doric  for its “extraordinary affinity” with Britten’s music. The Quartet’s ongoing commitment to Haydn has so far seen them record the complete Opus 20, Opus 76 and Opus 64 Quartets with the recordings, attracting acclaim as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone, Choc du Mois in Classica Magazine and was on the short list for a Gramophone Award. Future releases include quartets by Mendelssohn and the complete Haydn Opus 33 Quartets.

Formed in 1998, the Doric String Quartet studied with the Paris-based ProQuartet Professional Training Program and later at the Music Academy in Basel. They were selected for representation by YCAT in 2006. In 2015 the Quartet was appointed as Teaching Quartet in Association at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The Quartet’s violist Hélène Clément plays a viola by Guissani, 1843 generously on loan from the Britten-Pears Foundation and previously owned by Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten.

Marc-André Hamelin
Pianist Marc-André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries – in concert and on disc.

The current season includes Mr. Hamelin’s return to Carnegie Hall for a recital on the Keyboard Virtuoso Series plus recitals in Montreal, Seattle, Berlin, Florence, Salzburg, Wigmore Hall, Istanbul, among others. Hamelin appears with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles, Stuttgart and Moscow State Philharmonics, the Vancouver, Cincinnati, and Oregon Symphonies, and tours in Europe with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

He was a distinguished member of the jury of the 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017, where each of the 30 competitors performed Hamelin’s Toccata on L’Homme armé. which marked the first time the composer of the commissioned work was also a member of the jury. Although primarily a performer, Mr. Hamelin has composed music throughout his career; the majority of his works are published by Edition Peters.

Mr. Hamelin records exclusively for Hyperion Records. His most recent releases are a disc of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major and Four Impromptus, a landmark disc of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Concerto for Two Pianos with Leif Ove Andsnes, Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus, and Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski.

He was honored with the 2014 ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of Year (Piano) and Disc of the Year by Diapason Magazine and Classica Magazine for his three-disc set of Busoni: Late Piano Music and an album of his own compositions, Hamelin: Études, which received a 2010 Grammy nomination (his ninth) and a first prize from the German Record Critics’ Association.

Mr. Hamelin makes his home in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller. Born in Montreal, Marc-André Hamelin is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critic’s Association. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

Previously called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Center is Orange County’s largest non-profit arts organization. In addition to its six performance venues, Segerstrom Center is also home to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School and the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is also proud to serve as the artistic home to three of the region’s major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, Philharmonic Society of Orange County and Pacific Chorale. Each contributes greatly to the artistic life of the region with annual seasons performed at the Center.

DORIC STRING QUARTET AND MARC- ANDRÉ HAMELIN

Segerstrom Center for the Arts – Samueli Theater
615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, CA

Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 8:00 p.m.

Program:
Hamelin: Piano Quintet
Sibelius: Quartet in D minor, “Voices intimae” op. 56
Dvořák: Piano Quintet, Op. 81, No. 2

Performers:
Marc- André Hamelin, piano
Alex Redington, violin
Ying Xue, violin
Hélène Clément, viola
John Myerscough, cello

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The 2019–2020 Chamber Music Series continues with the Vienna Piano Trio (February 29, 2020),
the Sibelius Piano Trio ( April 17, 2020)
and the Emerson String Quartet (May 7, 2020).

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