The Quartet’s concert in Budapest, which serves as their introduction to their Budapest audience, is their first concert of a Central European concert tour, during which the Quartet plays Beethoven’s late string quartets in Prague and Vienna.

The concert in Vigadó will be special thanks to the unique arrangement in the Ceremonial Hall. After World War II, this will be the first time when the stage will be located close to the River Danube in the Ceremonial Hall, which will give the audience the opportunity to have a closer insight of the events taking place on the stage. This new acoustic experience and the Quartet’s concert featuring the intimacy of chamber music will certainly provide an unforgettable encounter to those who are already experts of this kind of music as well as to those for whom this genre is completely new.

Program:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

String Quartet # 1 in F major, op. 18, no. 1 (1799)

String Quartet # 16 in F major, op. 135 (1826)

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String Quartet #7 in F major, op. 59, no. 1 (1806)

Members of quartet:

Cecily Ward (violin)

Tom Stone (violin)

Ethan Filner (viola)

Jennifer Kloetzel (cello)