November 24, 2003

St. Petersburg Quartet Celebrates Russian Music In Boise

The Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State department of music present the St. Petersburg String Quartet in the second concert of the Boise Chamber Music Series at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. The quartet will celebrate the 300th anniversary of their hometown of St. Petersburg, Russia, with a passionate program of Prokofiev and Glazunov, as well as a haunting new work by Georgian composer Zurab Nadarejshvili. Tickets are $20 general and $15 for students and seniors. “A Little Morning Music,” a free master class with student string quartets, will be offered at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, also in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Early in its career, the quartet blazed at rail through international chamber music competitions, winning First Prize at the All-Soviet Union String Quartet Competition, the Silver Medal and a Special Prize at Vittorio Gui International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Florence, Italy, and First Prize and the “Grand Prix Musica Viva” at the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Melbourne, Australia. The St. Petersburg String Quartet will soon release the complete works of Tchaikovsky for string quartet on the Dorian label. Already available are the complete Shostakovich cycle on Hyperion and Delos’ recordings of Prokofiev’s two quartets, Nadarejshvili’s String Quartet No. 1 and Glazunov’s Quartet No. 5. For more information, call Jeanne Belfy at 426-1216. -30- Contact Jeanne Belfy Department of music 208 426-1216 Media Contact Kathleen Craven communications and marketing 208 426-3275