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Oct. 24, 2006
Contact: Gordon
Ovenshine: 724-738-4854; gordon.ovenshine@sru.edu
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY QUARTET TO PERFORM NOV. 17
AT SRU
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- The Pittsburgh Symphony Quartet will
perform Nov. 17 at Slippery Rock University and host a residency
with 35 SRU music majors, giving them a first-hand look at their
lives as classical musicians.
The free, informal performance and discussion, open to the
public, is set for 1:30 p.m. in Swope Music Hall Choir Room.
The
quartet will select movements from Dvorak’s American Quartet
Op. 96, Mozart’s String Quartet K.465
“Dissonance” and Gardel’s tango “Por Una
Cabeza.”
In the morning, the quartet will host a residency program
for third through fifth graders at Slippery Rock Area Elementary
School.
SRU, which is sponsoring both appearances, invited the
quartet as part of an outreach program to encourage young people to
take an interest in music. Students can ask questions and gain
insight for improving their own playing, or interest in
music.
The appearances were made possible by a performance
partnership between SRU and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,
which sponsors the quartet and Pittsburgh Symphony Pops. The pops
will perform Feb. 7 at SRU as part of SRU’s Performing Arts
Series.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Quartet includes Jennifer Orchard,
first violin, Sarah Clendenning, second violin, Marylene
Gingras-Roy, viola and Mikhail Istomin, cello. They are full-time
members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and have performed
across the U.S.
Clendenning joined the Pittsburgh Symphony violin section
at the beginning of the 1997-98 season. Orchard, a native Canadian,
performs as a soloist and chamber musician. Gingras-Roy joined the
symphony viola section in 1997, and native Russian Istomin joined
in 1991.
The quartet’s visit to
SRU is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing
Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Heinz
Endowments; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts; and the Pew Charitable Trust, administered by
the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
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