The Chapel Concert Series continues with a special concert with the award-winning Apple Hill String Quartet.
Described as “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad magazine, the Apple Hill String Quartet returns to Orchard Chapel with another fantastic and eclectic program.
The evening begins with the cinematic beauty of Philip Glass. His music for the 1985 film, Mishima, was so popular, Glass gave it a life of its own with his String Quartet No. 3. Next, Dana Lyn, Brooklyn-based composer and solo violinist with the hit show Hadestown on Broadway, charms with her Sketches. Influenced by her background in Western classical music, Irish fiddling, and jazz, Dana’s quartet has been an audience favorite this season.
The concert concludes with a journey back to 19th-century Berlin. Emilie Mayer, a brilliant and prolific composer, was well-regarded in her lifetime, but then, on account of her gender, forgotten. Her music, including her passionate String Quartet in G Minor, is currently enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
ABOUT APPLE HILL STRING QUARTET
The Quartet serves as the Music Directors for Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop in Nelson, New Hampshire, known for cultivating connection among people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and ages through its guiding philosophy, Playing for Peace.
During the regular concert season, the Quartet performs concerts and conducts educational residencies locally in New Hampshire, nationally in major U.S. cities, and internationally around the globe—in venues as diverse as the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, ChatterABQ, Burncoat High School in Worcester, Project STEP in Boston, Cedarcrest Center for Children with Disabilities in Keene, NH, the Ketermaya refugee camp outside Beirut, Lebanon, the Moscow Conservatory, the Conservatorio National de Musica in Lima, Peru, the Gitameit Music School in Yangon, Myanmar, and the Harrisville General Store.
The Quartet’s eclectic and dynamic concert programs reflect the diversity of Apple Hill: pieces amplifying new voices in classical music; compositions from places representing the Quartet’s global travels and the summer workshop community; and music from the historic canon and new commissions, especially from renowned alumni.
The Quartet has collaborated with members of the Brentano and Attacca String Quartets, Silk Road Ensemble, Dorian Wind Quintet, Warp Trio, and Hirsch-Pinkas Duo. Members of the Quartet have received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Brandeis University, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and a Fulbright Fellowship to London, England.