( l to r) Kristopher Tong, Nicholas Kitchen, Mai Motobuchi, and Yeesun Kim
PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Contact: Dr. Stephen Feldman, (501) 450-5754; sfeldman@uca.edu
January 28, 2014
BORROMEO STRING QUARTET TO BE IN RESIDENCE FEB. 11-12
By Cassidy Crawford
College of Fine Arts and Communication Media Office
CONWAY — The Borromeo String Quartet, Ensemble-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will be on the University of Central Arkansas campus as artists in residence Feb. 11-12.
As part of the Borromeo’s 25th anniversary celebration, students and the community are encouraged to attend classes and experience the quartet’s live performances. All events are free and open to the public.
The Borromeo will perform a public concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Snow Fine Arts Center on Thursday, Feb. 12. The concert will end with Franz Schubert’s last string quartet.
“This is work on a grand scale, often lyrical and tender, though in equal parts dramatic as well as playful,” said Dr. Stephen Feldman, associate professor of music at UCA and the faculty sponsor for the residency. “Bartok’s 4th String Quartet is one of the most intense and visceral works written for string quartet, and even though it was written in 1927, it remains breathtakingly innovative and original.”
The quartet will perform a range of traditional and more modern works with laptop computers instead of traditional sheet music.
“This will also allow the members of the quartet to perform from a full score — they will be able to see not just their music, but the musical lines of the three other performers around them,” Feldman said. “I am curious, too, to see what this will bring to their performances.”
The program for Wednesday, Feb. 11, will include a masterclass for string chamber music groups in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and the quartet members will give individual masterclasses from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in various rooms in Snow Fine Arts.
Besides the public concert Thursday, Feb. 12, the Borromeo will give an informal concert and presentation from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Conway High School on Prince Street, and from 1:40 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the quartet will present a lecture recital for UCA students in the Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.
For more information, contact Feldman at (501) 450-5754 or sfeldman@uca.edu.
The Artist in Residence program is funded by UCA’s arts fee and is administered by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. For more information about the program, call the Office of the Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication, at (501) 450-3293 or e-mail jdmiller@uca.edu.
The UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication includes the Departments of Art, Communication, Mass Communication and Theatre, Music and Writing. The college’s primary mission is the preparation of the next generation of artists, educators and communicators. For more information about CFAC, visit www.uca.edu/cfac or call (501) 450-3293.
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