C o n t e m p o r a r y
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 AT 7:30PM
at La Maison Française
Admission:
- General: $20
- Students w/id.: $15
Tickets: www.InstantSeats.com
A limited amount of free parking within the Embassy of France will be available on a first come, first served basis. Additional parking is available on Reservoir Road and across the street at Georgetown University Hospital’s pay lot.
A wine reception to meet the artists will follow the concert.
Diotima String Quartet
Naaman Sluchin, violin 1 & 2
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin 1 & 2
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, violoncello
Program
James Dillon - Quartet No.6
Emmanuel Nunes - Improvisation IV – l'électricité de la pensée humaine
Chaya Czernowin - Seed I & Seed II
Roger Reynolds - ELLIOTT
Gyorgi Ligeti - Quartet no. 2
"One of the five quartets you should know" — Gramophone
"Exquisite Stillness… they simply let the sound emanate and make its own point. The listener never feels beaten over the head, either by lush extended triadic harmony or by tone-neutral growls or rasps." — Charles T. Downey, Ionarts.org
Bringing new works to life by performing music of our time, is the core of Diotima’s mission. The group has given première performances of new quartets by Pauset, Dillon, Kyburz, Durand, Lévinas, Mochizuki, Durieux and Posadas. The Diotima Quartet was founded by graduates of the Paris and Lyon conservatories. It received First Prize at the FNAPEC competition in Paris (1999), and the Contemporary Music Prize at the London String Quartet Competition (2000).
From the outset, Diotima have 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, Musica Strasbourg, Ars Musica Brussels, Festival ECLAT Stuttgart, Musica Nova Helsinki, Archipel Geneva, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Huddersfield Festival, Budapest Autumn Festival, Stockholm New Music, CDMC Madrid and Centre Acanthes Metz. The group has performed in Japan, the U.S., Central and South America, China and Korea.
Diotima received multiple "Diapason d’or" for its recordings. The most recent one — quartets of George Onslow on the Naïve label — has been awarded the January 2010 "Diapason d’or" and CD of the month.
- Listen: quatuordiotima.fr/radio.swf
- Website: quatuordiotima.fr/main_en.html
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photo © Thibault Stipal
photo © Thibault Stipal