JUNE 24-JULY 5, 2024
Concerts! Open Masterclasses and Workshops! Live Music Bingo and more!
Schedule:
QFW Concerts:
Quartet Fest West Participants-Friday, June 28th, 2:00 PM St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, corner of Broughton and Douglas. By donation.
Jasper String Quartet-Sunday, June 30th, 7:00 PM Phillip T. Young Auditorium. Get your tickets HERE
About their program:
Folk music has the unique ability to carry generations of meaning and touch our deepest emotions through simplicity. The Jasper’s program explores this rich inspiration from the romantic period to the present day. The program opens with Gabriella Smith’s exuberant Carrot Revolution, which blends eclectic influences of Georgian folk songs, Celtic fiddle tunes, Gregorian chant, and Bach into an infectious and joyous tapestry of dance and groove. Grażyna Bacewicz (pronounced Ba-che-vich) draws on inspirations of Polish folk music and dance in her String Quartet No. 4 to bring the listener into a unique and mysterious world. The program closes with Antonín Dvořák’s String Quartet Op. 105, his final work in the genre of string quartet. Its first notes are a mystical rumination that give way to a landscape that slips from joyous melody and dance to nostalgia and menace with virtuosic fluidity, all through an incredible and inescapable lens of homeland.
Live Music Bingo FUNdRaiser with the Breakwater Quartet- Wednesday, July 3rd, 7:00 PM David Lam Auditorium, UVic. Info and tickets HERE
Sing along (or just listen) while filling your bingo cards and helping make dreams come true for wonderful young musicians from all over the Canada and the Pacific Northwest!
Quartet Fest West Participants Final Concert- Friday, July 5th, 7:00 PM Phillip T. Young Auditorium. By donation.
Twenty-four fine young musicians perform, (six chamber music groups!) many having never met each other before the 24th of June! Please join us as we celebrate their amazing talents!
Sadly, due to unforeseen circumstances, Cuarteto Corvus are not able to come to Quartet Fest West this year. We hope they will be able to attend next year!
Open masterclasses take place in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall. Enter the PTY through the lower level hallway, to the left of the glass stairwell walls.
Masterclass schedule (subject to change):
Wed. June 26 3:00-4:30 Sharon Stanis
Thurs. June 27 3:00-4:30 Pamela Highbaugh Aloni
Sun. June 30 2:30-4:00 Members Jasper Quartet
Mon. July 1 3:00-4:30 Members Jasper Quartet
Please watch this website for more information!
2024 QFW Faculty:
Former members of the Lafayette String Quartet:
Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violins; Joanna Hood, viola; and Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello
GUEST ARTISTS:
The Jasper String Quartet:
J Freivogel and Karen Kim, violins; Andrew Gonzales, viola; and Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello
“flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced.”— Gramophone
About the Jasper String Quartet:
Celebrating its eighteenth season in 2024, the Jasper String Quartet is hailed as “flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced” (Gramophone). The Quartet’s “programming savvy” (clevelandclassical.com) evocatively connects the music of underrepresented and living composers to the canonical repertoire in thought-provoking programs.
A recipient of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Quartet’s playing is “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad). The ensemble has released eight albums, including Unbound, named by the New York Times as one of the year’s 25 Best Classical Recordings.
The Jasper String Quartet is the Founder and Artistic Director of Jasper Chamber Concerts the Director of the Saint Paul Chamber Music Institute, and the Professional Quartet-in-Residence at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians.
Victoria audiences will remember Vivian Fung’s Fifth Quartet “Spiraling” commissioned by the LSQ. The Jasper String Quartet has performed and recorded her quartets 1-4 for the Sono Luminus label as well as Reinaldo Moya’s Pájaros Garabatos with soprano Maria Brea. Critics praise the Quartet’s recordings as “artistically nuanced, executed with gorgeous technique and plenty of personality” (Music City Review).
The Jasper Quartet also continues in its eighth season as Artistic Director of Jasper Chamber Concerts, a series founded by the Quartet and dedicated to encouraging curiosity, community, and inclusivity through world-class chamber music performances.
