Â鶹¹û¶³ Arts will be featured on one of the world’s most famous arts stages in October when the Â鶹¹û¶³ String Quartet performs Oct. 24 in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. The performance is at 7:30 p.m.
School of the Arts Dean Joseph Hopkins will be a guest soloist with for the Carnegie Hall recital, and the program will include works by composer Joel Scott Davis, assistant professor of music.
Hopkins has invited Â鶹¹û¶³ Arts friends, faculty, alumni and students to join the festivities around this premiere performance of the quartet. In addition to the Carnegie Hall event, Hopkins will host the group for a tour of the city and a postperformance reception at the world-famous Tavern on the Green.
Trip information and registration is available online. Tickets for the performance are available online with a Â鶹¹û¶³ discount using SAM24743. A block of rooms has been held at Le Parker Meridien Hotel. Hotel reservations can be made online or by calling 800-543-4300 to confirm bookings. Guests must reference Â鶹¹û¶³ when booking to receive the rate.
The Â鶹¹û¶³ String Quartet was formed in 2011 and first performed in England and France. Comprised of two married couples — Angela and Jeffrey Flaniken (viola and violin) and Caroline and Samuel Nordlund (violin and cello) — the musicians are faculty members of Â鶹¹û¶³’s School of the Arts. They also have held positions with several symphony orchestras and regularly play at music festivals.
In February, Â鶹¹û¶³ announced a $1 million endowment for the strings program provided by Wilton Bunch and Victoria Dvonch of Birmingham. Bunch and Dvonch have been longtime supporters of Â鶹¹û¶³ Arts, an affinity that grew from Bunch’s experience playing bass in the Â鶹¹û¶³ Orchestra.
In addition to the New York recital, the quartet will perform this fall at Auburn University, a send-off concert at Â鶹¹û¶³ and other Birmingham venues.