American String Quartet with Timothy Deighton, violist October 21, 2008

Schwab Auditorium

A Kiwi teams with the Yankees when violist Timothy Deighton, an associate professor of music at Penn State and a native of New Zealand, performs Mozart and Brahms quintets with the New York City-based American String Quartet. Last season the quartet and Deighton came together for the first time to perform Brahms’ String Quintet No. 2. The quartet members are great collaborative musicians, but violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, violist Daniel Avshalomov, and cellist Wolfram Koessel are also educators, innovators, champions of new music, soloists, and more. The ensemble, which has performed in most of the important chamber music venues around the world, has been the resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and the Manhattan School of Music since 1984. The program also includes the quartet performing Alban Berg’s String Quartet, a piece composed in 1910.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian): String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515
Alban Berg (Austrian): String Quartet, Op. 3
Johannes Brahms (German): String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88, Spring

The performance of Alban Berg’s String Quartet is part of Moments of Change, a Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities multifaceted and ongoing initiative focused in 2008–2009 on the turn of the twentieth century (1889-1914). The performance is made possible through a partnership between the Center for the Performing Arts and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

Official Website: http://www.cpa.psu.edu