Title

Shanghai Quartet

Authors

Office of Arts + Cultural Programming
PEAK Performances at Montclair State University

Date(s) of Performance

5/5/2012

Company

Shanghai Quartet

Performers/Artists

Violinists: Weigang Li, Yi-Wen Jiang; Violist: Honggang Li; Cellist: Nicholas Tzavaras

Summary

Ever since Franz Josef Haydn developed the modern version of a string quartet in the mid-18th century, the most daring and innovative practitioners of the art form has to be Béla Bartók. In this special double program, the Shanghai Quartet flexes its musical muscles by performing the complete Bartók quartet cycle. Written over a 30-year span, Bartók’s six quartets stand as a sonic biography of one of the 20th century’s most enigmatic and essential composers.

Disciplines

Music Performance | Theatre and Performance Studies

Files

Additional Information

shanghaiquartet.com