Arnica Quartet News

Behind the scenes at the Arnica String Quartet.

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Merry Christmas! on Flickr.

Merry Christmas!

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untitled on Flickr.

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Portland noir. on Flickr.

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morning leaves on Flickr.

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Shemanski Park, Portland on Flickr.

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Sunday latte on Flickr.

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our 2013-2014 season

Our season will be built around the three numbered quartets of Benjamin Britten! We'll be presenting all three on one concert for the 2014 edition of March Music Moderne in Portland, Oregon. Our other major work of the season will be Schubert's mammoth masterpiece, his G major quartet, which we'll be presenting at our concerts in Salem, Oregon and Astoria, Oregon in November and February. More news as plans firm up even more!

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View my 2 latest photos on Flickr: http://flic.kr/u/2j15a7/aHsjEvJX3Z

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Nice shout-out from EP's team!

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Packed house, great music, fun concert!

Photo: Leo Daedalus

Last night we played at the historic Old Church in downtown Portland as part of the third annual March Music Moderne festival. It was a program that just fell together, largely by accident, but which garnered a lot of praise just for the varied pieces which it contained. We gave the Portland premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Homunculus for string quartet (2007), and accompanied it with works by Arvo Pärt and Osvaldo Golijov, and rounded out the program with the relatively rarely performed Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 by Bartók.

Photo: Jennifer Arnold

We had a bit of a hitch with the church being opened on time, but it was fun to hang out with some of the early bird concertgoers before the building manager arrived - and thank goodness it was not raining or freezing! It was also fun to see the results of a pretty intensive marketing blitz - a nearly full hall! Many thanks to Bob Priest at MMM for his help in getting the word out about our concert (and for the Polish potato vodka he gave us afterward!).

We’re going to do a few touch-ups on the Salonen before we send him a copy of the recording, hopefully he’ll be happy with the result. It’s definitely a piece that we want to keep in our repertoire, and hope to play it a couple times again next season.

Thank you to everyone who turned out to support us and the music! See you next year!

Photo: Jennifer Arnold

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A hair-raising work written for the Johannes Quartet in late 2007. Premiered in 2008.

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Arnica Quartet - Bartók First Quartet rehearsal excerpts (by nobleviola)

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(via mousai remix plays ivories tonight)

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Yes, the mega maestro himself is now following our progress! Now feverishly in rehearsals for a Skype coaching with EPS on March 6th.

Keep your eyes peeled for a semi-in-depth look at the piece in the next couple weeks.

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Karen Wagner will be hosting a “Phantasy” filled evening of chamber music at her home for the Friends of the Oregon Symphony’s Parties of Note Series.  Evan Kuhlmann will be joining in for a bassoon/string quartet collaboration with us on Nostalgica by Miguel del Aguila.  We will be busting out the 2nd mvt of Ravel’s quartet and joining Karen later with Britten’s Phantasy op 2.  www.partiesofnote.org for more information

March 1 7:30PM

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SBSQ - Simón Bolívar String Quartet (Trailer english) (by deutschegrammophon1)