Redwood Arts Council Presents the Minetti Quartet (Aired: November 1, 2019)

Minetti Quartett
The Community Church of Sebastopol
Saturday, November 9th, 2019 @ 7:30pm

Since being nominated for the “Rising Stars” award by the European Concert Hall Organization in 2008/09, the Minetti Quartett, comprising Austrian musicians all living in Vienna, has performed in renowned venues in Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Stockholm, Brussels, London, and other locations. Invitations to chamber music festivals have taken the quartet to North, Central and South America, Australia, Japan and China.

For its fifteenth anniversary, the Minetti Quartett was invited to start their own cycle of concerts at Vienna’s newest venue, the MuTh concert hall in the city’s Augarten.  A newly recorded CD with 20th-century music and concert tours to France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and America are further highlights of last season.

The Minetti Quartett is a winner of many international chamber music competitions (Schubert Competition, Haydn Competition) and was awarded Austria’s Grosser Gradus ad Parnassum Prize, the start-up grant of the Austrian federal ministry and the Karajan Grant. The name of the quartet derives from a play by the dramatist Thomas Bernhard, who lived in Ohlsdorf in Austria’s Salzkammergut region, where the two violinists of the quartet grew up.

Since 2009 Hänssler Classic has released four highly acclaimed CD recordings (Haydn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Schubert) by the ensemble, while Avi Music has released the Clarinet Quintets featuring Matthias Schorn.

Johannes Meissl and the musicians of the Alban Berg Quartett were the Minetti Quartett’s teachers at the Music University in Vienna. They also gained crucial artistic input from Ferenc Rados, Alfred Brendel and members of the Artemis Quartett, Amadeus Quartet and Hagen Quartett. The quartet has undertaken teaching projects in Finland, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and at American and Austrian universities (Mozarteum Salzburg, Music University of Graz).

The Minetti Quartet are:
Maria Ehmer, violin

Anna Knopp, violin

Milan Milojicic, viola

Leonhard Roczek, cello

Program:
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in g-minor, Op.74/3 “The Rider” Hob.III:74
Alban Berg: String Quartet Op.3
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet op.51/2, in a-minor 

Tickets:
$20 General
$10 Students
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Location:
Community Church of Sebastopol
1000 Gravenstein Hwy. North
Sebastopol, CA 95472

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