34th SEASON Quartets of Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert

Chiaroscuro String Quartet

9 March 2019 Alix Goolden Hall UpcomingConcerts

Victoria’s Requiem and Penitential Motets 23 March 2019 Saturday 8pm Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Clare College Cambridge (UK)

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Gate to the East 6 April 2019 Saturday 8pm Alix Goolden Hall Marco Beasley tenor (ITALY) Constantinople (MONTREAL) Kiya Tabassian setar and direction Quartets of Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert

String Quartet in Eb major, Opus 33, No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Allegro moderato Scherzo: Allegro Largo Presto

String Quartet in B flat major Op. 18 No. 6 Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Allegro con brio Adagio ma non troppo Scherzo: Allegro La Malinconia: Adagio-Allegretto quasi Allegro

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String Quartet No. 14 in D minor D.810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ (Der Tod und das Mädchen) Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) Allegro Andante con moto Scherzo Allegro molto Presto

The Artists

Chiaroscuro Quartet Records features Schubert's ‘Death and the Maiden’ and Formed in 2005, Chiaroscuro Quartet comprises String Quartet No.9 in G minor, D.173 was released in violinists Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán November 2018. Benedí (Spain), the Swedish violist Emilie Hörnlund and Since 2009, Chiaroscuro Quartet has been artist-in- cellist Claire Thirion from France. Dubbed ‘a trailblazer residence in Port-Royal-des-Champs giving a concert for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber series dedicated to Mozart’s string quartets. music’ in Gramophone, this international ensemble Chiaroscuro Quartet are grateful to Jumpstart Jr performs music of the Classical and early Romantic periods Foundation for the kind loan of the 1570 Andrea on gut strings and with historical bows. The quartet’s Amati violin. unique sound – described in The Observer as ‘a shock to the ears of the best kind’ – is highly acclaimed by audiences Alina Ibragimova and critics all over Europe. Born in Russia, Alina studied at the Moscow Gnesin Their growing discography includes recordings of School before moving with her family to the UK, where she music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College and Haydn. Chiaroscuro Quartet was a prize-winner of of Music, and was a member of the Kronberg Academy the German Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk/Musikfest Bremen Masters programme. Alina’s teachers have included Natasha in 2013 and received ’s most prestigious CD Boyarsky, Gordan Nikolitch and Christian Tetzlaff. award, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2015 Alina has performed chamber music at venues for their recording of Mozart’s Quartet in D minor, K. 421 including the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and Mendelssohn’s Second String Quartet in A minor, Op. Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Vienna, Carnegie Hall 13. Among the ensemble’s chamber music partners are New York, Palais des Beaux Arts , and at festivals renowned artists such as Kristian Bezuidenhout, Trevor including Salzburg, Verbier and Aldeburgh. Pinnock, Jonathan Cohen, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Chen As a soloist Alina appears with orchestras including Halevi, Malcolm Bilson and Christophe Coin. the London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Recent engagements included their enthusiastically Music, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche received debut concerts at Vienna Konzerthaus and Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Stuttgart Radio Philharmonie Warsaw. In April 2016, the quartet embarked Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of on its first tour to Japan playing concerts in Tokyo and the Age of Enlightenment, Konzerthausorchester , Hyogo. Other highlights have taken the ensemble to Philharmonia, and all the BBC orchestras. the Edinburgh International Festival, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, Auditorio Nacional Pablo Hernán Benedí de Música Madrid, Music Festival Grafenegg, The Sage Pablo Hernán Benedí was born in Madrid, Spain. Gateshead (recorded for BBC Radio 3), Auditorium du He studied at the Padre Antonio Soler Conservatory in Louvre Paris, Théâtre du Jeu-de-Paume in Aix-en-Provence, San Lorenzo de El Escorial with Fernando Rius and Grand Théâtre de Dijon, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Polina Kotliarskaya, before coming to London in 2009 West Cork Festival and for a residency to Aldeburgh. to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama In the 2018/19 season, Chiaroscuro Quartet gives with David Takeno, supported by scholarships from the various concerts in the UK, including Wigmore Hall Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Juventudes Musicales with Annelien van Wauwe, have a return tour to Japan and La Caixa. and are Menuhin Festival Artists at Gstaad Festival. With As well as being a member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, Kristian Bezuidenhout they perform in Southampton, Pablo is a founding member of the Trio Isimsiz, having Bristol, Madrid, Vienna, Washington DC, New York, performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Montreal and Vancouver. Their latest recording, for BIS Festival, Barbican Hall and Royal Festival Hall. In 2015 they

4 won the 1st prize and the audience prize at the Trondheim including Timothy Boulton, Jack Glickman, David International chamber music competition. As a soloist Takeno and Andriy Viytovych. She also studied baroque Pablo has performed with London Chamber Players, Padre viola with Annette Isserlis. Antonio Soler Symphony Orchestra and the Philarmonia. He also regularly works as leader or section leader with Claire Thirion groups like Arcangelo, Sinfonia Cumry and Academy of Born in France, Claire Thirion studied at the Ancient Music. He also has appeared in festivals such as conservatoires (CNR) in Marseille and Boulogne- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lockenhaus. Billancourt, then at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM), before entering the Royal College of Music in London Emilie Hörnlund to study with Jérôme Pernoo and Catherine Rimer Emilie was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. Formally (Baroque cello). In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious a member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Emilie Tagore Gold Medal. Since completing her studies, Claire has held the position of Principal Viola at the Swedish has been in great demand for the performance of both Royal Opera since 2010. Emilie works with many other modern compositions and Baroque works. In 2008- leading orchestras in the UK and Sweden, including BBC 2010 she held the position of principal continuo player Philharmonic, London Chamber Orchestra, English with Emmanuelle Haïm’s ensemble, Le Concert d’Astrée. Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra As an active chamber musician, she is a member of the of the Age of Enlightenment, Swedish Radio Symphony Ensemble Fragonard, which also performs on period Orchestra and Kungliga Filharmonikerna Stockholm. instruments. Since 2006, she’s part of a duo with Karine In 2006 Emilie became the first viola player to Selo, piano, and regularly performs in different Festivals reach the final of the Ljunggrenska Tavlingen (Swedish in France and European countries. She is frequently Soloist Competition) in Sweden. Emilie studied at invited as a guest leader for projects on period instruments the Falun Music Conservatory, Guildhall School of with various ensembles. Music and the Royal College of Music with teachers Askonas Holt

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