February 6, 2006
Director of Media Relations
413/542-8417
AMHERST, Mass.—In the fourth installment of the 2005-06 Music at Amherst Series, the Brentano String Quartet will return to Amherst College to perform a program of Mozart viola quintets, in the 250th anniversary year of the composer’s birth, with Hsin-Yun Huang, viola, on Friday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall.
The Brentano String Quartet—Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin; Misha Amory, viola; and Nina Maria Lee, cello—has been singled out for its technical brilliance, musical insight and stylistic elegance since its founding in 1992, receiving many international awards. Reviewer Paul Griffiths in The New York Times wrote “The Brentano String Quartet...is something special. Their music making is private, delicate and fresh, but by its very intimacy and importance it seizes attention.”
The Brentano became the first quartet-in-residence at Princeton University in 1999, and served as quartet-in-residence at New York University from 1995 until 2003. The quartet was in residence at Amherst College last year.
The latest information can be obtained from the Amherst College Concert Website. Admission to the concert is $22; senior citizens and Amherst College employees, $19; and students $5. For more information and brochures call the Concert Office at 413/542-2195, or e-mail concert manager Kevin Daly at kpdaly@amherst.edu.
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