USU's Fry Street Quartet Brings Beethoven String Quartet Cycle to Utah

The Fry Street Quartet will perform Utah’s first Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Oct, 2-4 and 9-11 in the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall at Utah State University (approximately 1090 E. 675 North, Logan). The cycle includes all 17 of Beethoven’s string quartets.

Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and cost $20 for general public and $10 for students with ID. Tickets are now available at the Caine School of the Arts Box Office online (boxoffice.usu.edu), by phone at 435-797-8022, in person in the Tippetts Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center on the USU campus and at the door the night of each concert. All proceeds go to the Caine School of the Arts String Scholarship Fund.

 

The members are the string faculty and quartet-in-residence at Utah State University’s Caine School of the Arts, Department of Music. The quartet was founded in Chicago in 1997.

 

The quartet marks a first for the chamber music audience in Utah by performing this Beethoven Cycle, which is usually done over the course of a year. Performing the cycle is recognized by many in the profession as a coming-of-age milestone for a string quartet.

 

The cycle is part of Utah State’s Arts and Lectures Series. Robert Winter, renowned scholar, pianist, media author and professor of music at UCLA will be featured as a lecturer before each performance at 6:30 p.m. to guide the listener through the cycle.

 

The quartet members include William Fedkenheuer, violin; Rebecca McFaul, violin; Russell Fallstad, viola; and Anne Francis, cello. For more information about the members or about the cycle visit the quartet’s Web site or the Caine School of the Arts performance series Web site.

 

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Writer: Annalisa Fox, 435-797-1429, annalisa.fox@usu.edu