COFFS Harbour Music Society will present the Flinders Quartet in concert on Friday 17 October, at the John Paul College Theatre on Hogbin Drive.
The quartet’s cellist Zoe Knighton will give a talk at 6.30pm with the concert to start at 7.30pm.
The highly-respected chamber music ensemble challenges and champions the traditional role of a string quartet.
“Our audiences will thoroughly enjoy this balanced and beautiful program,” President of the Coffs Harbour Music Society Dr Leigh Summers said.
The program is titled “String Quartets with Heart and Soul” and begins with Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95, Serioso.
“This hauntingly lovely work compels attention from the very first note.”
Hailed as a major addition to the repertoire for the string quartet is Bungaree, an exciting and powerful new work composed by Australia’s foremost Indigenous composer and opera singer Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon.
Recent reviews of the quartet’s performance of this work have been described as “splendid”.
“Lovers of Mozart will be delighted with a performance of Mozart’s Adagio & Fugue in C minor, K.546.
“This work is characterised by drama and timeless grace.”
Dvorak’s String Quartet No. 14, Op. 105 concludes the concert.
“This is a masterwork of superb construction and undeniable inspiration.”
The quartet enjoy worldwide reputations as fine musicians.
Elizabeth Sellars (violinist) Wilma Smith (violinist) Helen Ireland (viola) and Zoe Knighton (cellist) have all won multiple scholarships, studied with internationally renowned chamber musicians and performed in Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Individual artists have performed as principals with Australia’s major symphony orchestras.
By Andrea FERRARI
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