October 17, 2002

Award-winning Viennese ensemble, the Artis String Quartet, will perform a concert for the Boise Chamber Music Series and will also give a free mini-concert open to everyone.

The concert at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 8, at the Morrison Center Recital Hall is presented by the Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State University music department. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For tickets or additional information, please call Jeanne Belfy at 426-1216.

The mini-concert is at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Morrison Center Main Hall and is open to everyone. This performance is presented as part of the Boise State Biennial High School Orchestra Festival, directed by music professor Craig Purdy.

The Artis Quartet includes Peter Shuhmayer and Johannes Meissl, violins; Herbert Kefer, viola; and Othmar Mueller, cello. This is their second appearance in Boise. Founded in 1980, when its members graduated from the Musikhochschule in Vienna, the Artis Quartet won the Cambridge and Evian string quartet competitions, and began to study under the LaSalle Quartet in Cincinnati. They have their own annual series at Vienna’s Musikverein, and have recorded more than 20 CDs, winning awards such as the Grand Prix International du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and others.

Friday’s concert will feature works by Mozart and Brahms and contemporary composer Tania Gabrielle French's second quartet.

At the Thursday mini-concert, the quartet will perform selections from their current touring repertoire and will discuss the fine points of chamber music performance. This event is supported by the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State music department.

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Jeanne Belfy

Music department

426-1216

Pat Pyke

communications and marketing

(208) 426-1987