See in person or via live-stream – WCMS Presents the Escher Quartet on Sunday, Nov 14 at 4pm

This special concert will feature the official world premiere of Suite for String Quartet “Series of Twelve” by Eugene Drucker, a founding member of the Emerson Quartet.  The composer will join us at the concert and participate with the Escher in the Q&A that follows the performance.

Go to www.westchesterchambermusicsociety.com for tickets and COVID guidelines.  Performance will be at Congregation Emanu-El, 2125 Westchester Avenue, Rye, N.Y.  All attendees are required to show proof of vaccination (POV) prior to the concert or before they enter the venue, and masks are required while people are in the building.

ESCHER QUARTET
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Brendan Speltz, violin; Pierre LaPointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello

Sunday, November 14, 2021
4:00 – 5:30pm

Within months of its inception in 2005 the Escher Quartet came to the attention of key musical figures worldwide. Championed by the Emerson Quartet, the Escher was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet in Residence at each artist’s summer festival.  A former BBC New Generation Artist, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall. The ensemble is currently String Quartet in Residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. They also serve as Season Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Quartet takes its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay among individual components working together to form a whole.

Program
Haydn: Quartet in B flat Major, Op.76, No.4 “Sunrise”
Eugene Drucker: Suite for String Quartet “Series of Twelve”
*Intermission*
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op.127
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings” 

Program notes will be sent to all ticket purchasers.