2023-09-07 10:27:00
Isidore? Yes, they named their string quartet following the violinist Isidore Cohen: He was a member of the Juilliard Quartet until 1966 and later of the Beaux Arts Trio – chamber music legends. And the Juilliard Quartet still plays a major role today, in the umpteenth line-up, as the quartet-in-residence at the world-famous Juilliard School in New York. So this is the provenance of the Isidore String Quartet: Four young Americans from Seattle (Washington), Santa Fe (New Mexico), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and Detroit (Michigan) found each other there, at the Juilliard School, in 2019. And are now starting a great career – because they won the international string quartet competition in Banff, Canada, in 2022.
This Canadian city in the Rocky Mountains offers mountains and bears as a winter sports paradise. But there is also a lot of culture. Later well-known ensembles like the Mandelring Quartet and the Hagen Quartet were successful there. Banff is a stepping stone: the prize includes the fact that the winners are sent on a world tour. In this way they can gain experience, get to know a new audience – and conquer it. Large European concert halls are among the partners of the Banff Centre, and the chamber music series “Klassik!” by SÜDWEST PRESSE is also a host in the Stadthaus. Youthful furor, technical virtuosity – the qualities of the Banff winners were demonstrated in Ulm with enthusiasm by the Rolston String Quartet, the Marmen Quartet and also the Dover Quartet. So now the current Banff winners, the Isidore String Quartet, who will be performing at the Stadthaus next Wednesday, September 13, at 8 p.m.
Before that, Phoenix Avalon (violin), Adrian Steele (violin), Devin Moore (viola) and Joshua McClendon (violoncello) will be in Switzerland, invited by the Lucerne Festival. Not only the superstars and the great orchestras of classical music can be heard there, but also debutants. And in addition to string quartets by Joseph Haydn (op. 20.2) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (op. 44.3), the “Isidores” also play a world premiere: “Forever Is Composed Of Nows” by Arman Gushchyan. They are guests with the same concert program in the Stadthaus – which is why the “Klassik!” series with the new work by Gushchyan, who was born in Armenia, grew up and worked in Moscow and moved to Los Angeles in 2022, can present a veritable German premiere.
Poetry by Emily Dickinson
The composer named his work following a poem by the great American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) – translated into German: “Forever is made of now”. Gushchyan himself describes his string quartet as follows: “This work is an exploration of the poetics of the present moment, the way we perceive and experience it and ourselves in it – in the flow of the shadows of meanings, the energies of feelings and sensations other realities that arise in sounds and music.”
But whether the Isidore String Quartet plays Haydn, Mendelssohn or Gushchyan – they always want to interpret the music very lively: treat the old as if it were new and the new as if it were old. It’s regarding the classic.
Inexpensive tickets for pupils and students
Tickets for the “classic!” concert with the Isidore String Quartet on September 13, 8 p.m. in the Stadthaus are available in the ServiceCenter Neue Mitte, at all Reservix ticket offices and online at swp.de/ticketshop. Pupils and students only pay 9 euros.
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