Award-winning string quartet to perform at K-State

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Monday, November 6, 2006

AWARD-WINNING STRING QUARTET TO PERFORM AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's McCain Performance Series will present the award-winning Jupiter String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, in McCain Auditorium.

Performances will include Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Haydn's Quartet in D major, and Brahms' String Quartet in A minor.

Hailed by the New York Sun as "one of the strongest young string quartets in the country," the Boston-based group has performed across the United States and abroad.

Recently, the group captured first prize and the Szekely Prize for best performance of a Beethoven quartet in the prestigious Eighth Banff International String Quartet Competition.

Jupiter String Quartet has performed in New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall and London's Wigmore Hall. Highlights of their 2006-2007 season include appearances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Zankel Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival.

The quartet has collaborated with such artists as Roger Tapping, Marcus Thompson, James Buswell, Paul Katz, Yong Hi Moon, Roberto Plano and the Miami and Borromeo String Quartets. They have also been heard on National Public Radio's Performance Today, WCRB in Boston, WFMT in Chicago and WQXR in New York.

Tickets can be purchased at http://www.k-state.edu/mccain/ or by calling the McCain box office at 785-532-6428 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.

The event is sponsored by Capitol Federal Savings. Additional support is provided by the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the K-State fine arts fee, and is also supported by the Friends of McCain.

A pre-performance lecture will be given by Cora Cooper, K-State professor of music, at 6:30 p.m. in 204 McCain.

Members of the quartet also will conduct residency activities and master classes throughout the community.