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Hailing from Germany, the three Schumann brothers have been playing together since childhood. Together with their violist colleague they communicate with an openness and curiosity that has gained them a reputation as one of the most exciting string quartets performing today.

Program: Monday, November 9
WOLF Italian Serenade
MOZART Quartet in G Major, K. 73f
IVES Quartet No. 2
BRAHMS Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

Program: Tuesday, November 10
HAYDN Quartet No. 67 in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Samuel BARBER Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
TCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11

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An evening of chamber music featuring Hamilton Cheifetz, Julia H. Lee, and guest artists performing works by Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann. This event supports PSU’s String Ensemble Community Outreach program, which arranges student performances at prisons and retirement communities.

This concert includes one intermission.

Violinist Tomás Cotik and pianist Shinmyung Rho trace the French violin tradition across two world wars. Lili Boulanger and Claude Debussy died within ten days of each other in March 1918 — Boulanger at twenty-four, the first woman to win the Premier Grand Prix de Rome; Debussy leaving a Violin Sonata that was both his last completed work and the last music he played in public. Poulenc wrote his sonata in occupied Paris in 1943, inscribed to the memory of Federico García Lorca. The evening ends with Ravel’s Second Sonata, with its central blues movement, and Tzigane. Program: Boulanger, Deux Morceaux; Debussy, Sonata in G minor; Poulenc, Sonata for Violin and Piano; Ravel, Sonata No. 2 in G major and Tzigane. $30 general admission, free for PSU students, faculty and staff.

Lisa Marsh and Connie Titterington perform works for two pianos by Lisa Ann Marsh, Aaron Copeland, and George Gershwin.

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Join PSU professor and violinist Tomás Cotik and pianist Shinmyung Rho for an evening celebrating some of the most captivating works in the French violin repertoire. The program features the elegance and imagination of Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata, the lyrical charm of Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne and Cortège, the expressive intensity of Francis Poulenc’s Violin Sonata, and two beloved works by Maurice Ravel: the Violin Sonata No. 2 and the dazzling virtuoso showpiece Tzigane. Spanning the late Romantic and early modern eras, these works reveal the remarkable palette of colors, textures, and emotions that characterizes French music, showcasing its refinement, imagination, and brilliance.

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