Isidore String Quartet
Saturday, April 11 – 7:30 p.m.
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1111 Cooper Avenue South, St. Cloud
Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’ They’ll also be the featured guests at our Musical Chairs fundraiser on Friday, April 10.
Concert sponsors:
Keith and Molly Ewing in memory of Rob Lavenda
Dale, Carol, and Maryne Mossey
Program: Proximities
Ligeti: Quartet No. 2
T. Sorey: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes (2018)
Schubert: Quartet in A minor, D. 804, Op. 29 “Rosamunde”
From Gyorgy Ligeti’s mastery of micropolyphony to Schubert’s yearning lyricism, this program offers no shortage of aesthetic and stylistic differences, yet each piece retains a central dilemma: a struggle between unification and divergence. Tyshawn Sorey’s Everything Changes, Nothing Changes is the perfect microcosm of this dialectic, which reflects the inherent darkness present throughout the evening’s works and demands a close examination of a quartet’s proximities, both to itself and to an audience.