Feb 1 (Thursday)
7:30 p.m. | Walter Hall
Free Admission
GUEST PERFORMER
Violin: Jeremy Bell
Violin: Jerzy Kapłanek
Viola: Christine Vlajk
Cello: Katie Schlaikjer
Accordion: Joseph Petric
Program
String Quartet No. 4 “Insects and Machines”
Vivian Fung
Concertante
Boyd McDonald
String Quartet No. 1 “Bogusławów”
Tyler Versluis
String Quartet No. 4
Krzysztof Penderecki
A Letter from the After-life
Dinuk Wijeratne
Joseph Petric Biography
Joseph Petric has appeared as featured soloist at London’s Southbank, Seiji Ozawa Hall, Bunka Kaikan, and the Berlin Philharmonic. His recitals include free improvisations with Pauline Oliveros, the complete Trio Sonatas by J.S.Bach and mixed programs of Mozart and Christos Hatzis acclaimed as “…cool, liquid, flowing…” (Maribor Vecer, Slovenia) After Petric’s Wigmore Hall Winterreise with Christoph Prégardien (2019) critic Peter Reed noted Petric’s “…extraordinary grasp of the accordion’s ability to sound like “breath from another planet”
Penderecki String Quartet Biography
The Penderecki String Quartet, approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail). Their recent schedule has included concerts in New York (Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Los Angeles (REDCAT at Disney Hall), St. Petersburg, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb, Atlanta, as well as appearances at international festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, and China. The PSQ champions music of our time, performing a wide range of repertoire from Haydn to Zappa as well as premiering over 100 new works to date. Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity”, the PSQ’s diverse discography includes the chamber music of Brahms and Shostakovich (Eclectra and Marquis labels) and their recently released Bartok cycle. They enter their 20th year as Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.