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The critically acclaimed Artaria String Quartet is “Minnesota’s foremost teaching and performing string quartet.” –Rob Hubbard for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. They have served as MPR Teaching / Artists-inResidence and were featured on Twin Cities Public Television as part of the MN-Original Artists series. The quartet has performed at major summer festivals including the Banff Centre in Canada, Festival de L’Epau in France, and have taught at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA. Artaria is the winner of a highly coveted McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, and has earned Teaching Artist grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, Midori’s Partners in Performance, MRAC, and SEMAC for performance and educational projects. Members of the quartet are the founders and directors of the Artaria Chamber Music School, a weekly coaching program for pre-college age string players; Stringwood, a three week festival and camp held in Lanesboro, MN each June; and the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, an annual national event that showcases America’s finest high school string quartets from around the country.
Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik K.525
Jessie Montgomery Quartet “Source Code”
Haydn Quartet in G major Op.77/1
Wolf “Italian Serenade”
 
For Grand Rapids music lovers Artaria is performing an eclectic program of classical favorites. Opening with Mozart’s famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Artaria introduces a contemporary quartet piece (and Minnesota premiere) based on American church spirituals by a rising young Black composer from NYC, Jessie Montgomery. Papa Haydn’s beautiful quartet in G major is up next and then we will play a favorite encore piece “Italian Serenade” composed in 1887 by young Austrian art song composer Hugo Wolf.