Ladies' Morning Music Club Presents the Fauré Quartett

FAURÉ QUARTETT, piano quartet

Erika Geldsetzer -violin, Sascha Frömbling  -viola

Konstantin Heidrich -cello, Dirk Mommertz  -piano

The Fauré Quartett was founded in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1995, the 150^th anniversary of the birth of composer Gabriel Fauré. In the three decades since then, the founding members are all still in the group, which has established itself as one of the world’s leading chamber ensembles and as one of the few for the instrumental combination of piano, violin, viola, cello. The Quartett has appeared in most of the world’s leading concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Berlin Philharmonie, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In addition to mainstream classics, the Fauré Quartett is devoted to discovering new and unusual repertory. In 2009, it expanded its repertory with modern arrangements of selected songs from pop history, published by the Deutsche Grammophon label under the title Popsongs. The Quartett’s visionary, experimental approach has attracted considerable attention, as for example in its collaborations with artists like Rufus Wainwright and Sven Helbig, and in appearances at clubs like Le Poisson Rouge in New York. The Quartett’s mainstream discography includes works by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, and of course Fauré, in addition to its own arrangements of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-Tableaux. 7th LMMC appearance.

Subscriptions for the 10-concert series are $350, and $100 for students 26 years and under and single tickets are available at $60 and $25 for students.

Sept. 8       CALIDORE STRING QUARTET, strings
Sept. 29     GEORGE LI, piano
Oct. 20       BLAKE POULIOT, violin
Nov. 10      BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, piano
Dec. 1        VICTOR JULIEN-LAFERRIÈRE, cello
Jan. 26       KARINA GAUVIN, soprano
Feb. 23       GOLDMUND QUARTETT, strings
Mar. 16       FAURÉ QUARTETT, piano quartet
Apr. 6         LEONKORO QUARTET, strings
Apr. 27       TRIO WANDERER, piano trio

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