VC LIVE | Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents The Aizuri Quartet

Tune in here on Monday, July 3rd at 7:30PM (ET) for a special concert featuring works written by Clara Schumann, Béla Bartók, Tanya Tagaq, & Joseph Hadyn

We're coming at you live from the Bowdoin International Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the Festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.

This concert features the Aizuri Quartet performing works by Clara Schumann, Béla Bartók, Tanya Tagaq, and Joseph Hadyn.

Aizuri Quartet:
Emma Frucht, Miho Saegusa, violin • Ayane Kozasa, viola • Karen Ouzounian, cello 

Program:

CLARA WIECK SCHUMANN (1819–1896) [ARR. KAREN OUZOUNIAN]
Ich stand in dunkeln träumen 

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945)
String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 

TANYA TAGAQ (b. 1975) [ARR. JACOB GARCHIK]
Sivunittinni 

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
String Quartet No. 63 in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4, “Sunrise” 

About the Aizuri Quartet:

Praised by The Washington Post for “astounding” and “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, along with top prizes at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan and the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London. The Quartet’s debut album, Blueprinting, featuring new works written for the Aizuri Quartet by five American composers, was released by New Amsterdam Records to critical acclaim (“In a word, stunning” – I Care If You Listen), nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY Award, and named one of NPR Music’s Best Classical Albums of 2018.