JACOBS SCHOOL OF MUSIC The Orion String Quartet is one of the most sought-after ensembles Six Hundred Eighty-First Program of the 2006-07 Season in the United States. They remain on the cutting edge of programming with numerous commissions from composers Chick Corea, , John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, Marc Neikrug, , and Wynton Orion String Quartet Marsalis, and enjoy a creative partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. With over 50 performances this year, the members of the Daniel Phillips, Violin Orion String Quartet—violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips (brothers Todd Phillips, Violin who share the first violin chair equally), violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy—have worked with such legendary figures as Pablo Casals, Steven Tenenbom, Viola , Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, Timothy Eddy, Cello András Schiff, and members of TASHI and the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, Végh, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. Their repertoire, assisted by this season, includes cycles of Beethoven and Mozart, in addition to mixed programs of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Dvořák, Bartók, Zwilich, and Michael Waterman, Violin Schulhoff. The Orion serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Juliette Javaheri, Violin Society of Lincoln Center and New York’s Mannes College of Music and is Sheldon Person, Viola Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana Universtiy. Christina Stripling, Cello In August 2006, the Orion String Quartet performed at the Music@ Menlo Festival and gave the world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s String Quartet No. 4 at La Jolla Summerfest. This was followed by performances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a co-commissioner of this work String Quartet No. 1 (1949)* ...... Leon Kirchner along with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Philadelphia Allegro ma non troppo (born 1919) Chamber Music Society. The quartet was invited back to Indiana Univer- Adagio sity for the fourth consecutive season and is now Artist-in-Residence at its Divertimento Adagio prestigious music school. Additional engagements in North America take them to Boston, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, and Kalamazoo, MI. In April 2006, Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96* ...... Antonín Dvořák Koch released The Adventures of Hippocrates, a disc of Chick Corea, John Allegro ma non troppo (1841-1904) Harbison, and Marc Neirug compositions. The quartet is currently record- Lento ing the complete Beethoven quartets for Koch Records, and the first disc Molto vivace Vivace ma non troppo was released in October 2006. Heard frequently on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and Intermission WNYC Live, the Orion String Quartet has appeared three times on ABC’s Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20**...... Felix Mendelssohn Good Morning America, and on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts and PBS’s Live Allegro moderato ma con fuoco (1809-1847) from Lincoln Center. In October 2004, they participated in the first WNYC Andante Radio collaboration with BBC World Service’s popular syndicated program, Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo Music Party. Presto ______* Daniel Phillips 1st violin Formed in 1987, the Quartet chose its name from the Orion constel- ** Todd Phillips 1st violin Auer Concert Hall lation as a metaphor for the unique personality each musician brings to the Sunday Afternoon group in its collective pursuit of the highest musical ideals. March Twenty-Fifth Four O’Clock music.indiana.edu