Borealis Quartet & Ah Ling Neu, viola February 26, 2006

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, op. 95, Serioso

Imant Raminsh: String Quartet: A Falcon, a Storm or a Great Song, on a text of Rainer Maria Rilke (2003)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:Viola quintet in G minor, KV 516

The musicians:
The Borealis String Quartet:
Patricia Shih and Yuel Yawney, violins
Nikita Pogrebnoy, viola
Ariel Barnes, cello

with Ah Ling Neu, viola

The Borealis String Quartet, formed in Vancouver in 2002, is in residence at the University of British Columbia. They are featured in numerous CBC broadcasts and were finalists in the Great Canadian Music Dream Competition.

Ah Ling Neu, viola, performed with Marlboro, Chamber Music/West and Tanglewood Festivals. She is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony, the Ridge Quartet, the EOS Orchestra and the Brandenburg Ensemble.

Latvian-born Canadian composer Imant Raminsh (1943) is a violinist and a composer of mostly orchestral and choral works. He has lived in Canada since 1948. The quartet was commissioned for the Borealis Quartet in memory of David Mardon, a beloved member of the music community of British Columbia.

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