Chamber Quartet To Perform In Walnut Creek Sunday

WALNUT CREEK, CA — The Telegraph Quartet, winner of the 2016 Naumburg Competition, will perform in Walnut Creek this Sunday, May 5. They will perform Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s String Quartet No. 6, Op. 35, Antonín Dvořák’s “Cypresses,” settings of love songs for string quartet; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s exuberant String Quartet Op. 130 – capped off with the finale, the relentlessly striving “Grosse Fuge.”

The Telegraph Quartet formed in 2013 and perform both standard chamber music and contemporary, non-standard works with equal passion. In addition to winning the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 2016, they took the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

Last fall the Telegraph Quartet released its debut album on the Centaur label. It features three kaleidoscopic and kinetic modern string quartets from the 20th century – Leon Kirchner’s String Quartet No. 1 (1949); Anton Webern’s Fünf Sätze (Five Movements), Op. 5 (1909); and Benjamin Britten’s Three Divertimenti (1936).

The Quartet has performed in concert halls, music festivals, and academic institutions across the United States and abroad, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Masters Series and at festivals including the Chautauqua Institute, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Emilia Romagna Festival.

Details about the performance:

Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 3pm
Grace Presbyterian Church | 2100 Tice Valley Boulevard | Walnut Creek, CA
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