C o n t e m p o r a r y
Due to heightened security measures, the parking garage of the Embassy of France will not be available until further notice.
THURSDAY, APRIL 12 AT 7:30PM
at La Maison Française
Admission:
- General: $20
- Students w/id.: $15
Tickets: www.InstantSeats.com
Parking is available on Reservoir Road and across the street at Georgetown University Hospital’s pay lot.
Diotima String Quartet
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin 1 & 2
Vanessa Szigeti, violin 1 & 2
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, violoncello
A wine reception to meet the artists will follow the concert.
"Good quartets are swarming in France... but the Diotima [String] Quartet is probably one of the best and the most promising." — Le Monde
"One of the five quartets you should know" — Gramophone
(Berg’s Lyric Suite) "The tangle of competing melodies was unwoven with great skill, giving contrapuntal clarity to the individual lines. Percussive, almost hollow sounds alternated with glassy runs that shattered into shards." — Charles T. Downey, Ionarts.org
Presentation
At the core of Quatuor Diotima’s musical mission is the conviction that contemporary works should be just as accessible as other musical genres. The group has given première performances of new quartets by Pauset, Dillon, Kyburz, Durand, Lévinas, Mochizuki, Durieux and Posadas. From the outset, Diotima has performed internationally; it has appeared at many of the major concert venues and music festivals across Europe, including the Louvre Auditorium, Cité de la musique, Opéra Bastille, Berlin Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Musica Strasbourg.
Quatuor Diotima has received multiple "Diapason d’or" for its recordings. The most recent — quartets of George Onslow (on the Naïve label) — has been awarded the January 2010 "Diapason d’or" and CD of the Month.
Founded by graduates of the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires, Quatuor Diotima took first prize at the FNAPEC Competition (Paris, 1999) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the London String Quartet Competition in 2000. An equally significant part of its activity is the performance and dissemination of newly commissioned works.
The quartet's return to La Maison Française will include the U.S. première of Philippe Manoury’s "Tensio" for string quartet and electronics.
Artist links :
- http://quatuordiotima.fr/main_en.html
- http://quatuordiotima.fr/radio.swf
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nh0JxnUkE
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