The Scripps College Department of Music and The Joint Music Program of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, and Scripps colleges will host the Bessie Bartlett Frankel Chamber Music Festival, featuring the Colorado Quartet on Sunday, September 17, at 3 p.m. at Garrison Theater, Scripps College Performing Arts Center. The program includes works by Beethoven, Bartok, Mozart, and Hoover. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (909) 621-8280.
Known for their impassioned performances and lyrical finesse, the Colorado Quartet is comprised of musicians Julie Rosenfeld and Deborah Lydia Redding on violin, Marka Gustavsson on viola, and Diane Chaplin on cello. Recently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Quartet has appeared regularly in venues around the world. In recent years, performance highlights have included concerts at the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Their critically acclaimed recordings of Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and contemporary composers can be found on Parnassus, Mode, and Albany Records.
Internationally recognized as one of the finest string quartets, the Colorado Quartet has garnered many awards including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Currently serving as Quartet-in-Residence at Bard College, New York, the Quartet has held residencies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Swarthmore College, Skidmore College, and Amherst College. In addition to offering private lessons and coaching chamber ensembles, the musicians also give master classes at schools and universities across North America including: the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, The Banff Centre, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto. The members of the Quartet are also artistic directors of the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival, the Quartet Institute, Falmouth, Massachusetts, and the Bard College Quartet Institute.