BRATTLEBORO — On Sunday, March 23, Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Music Series presents the Escher String Quartet, widely acclaimed for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty.
Championed by the Emerson String Quartet, the Escher has toured extensively throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.
In its hometown of New York City, the ensemble serves as Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where last season it presented a critically acclaimed three-concert series featuring the quartets of Benjamin Britten.
In 2013 the quartet became one of the few chamber ensembles to land a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
The audience will hear violinists Adam Barnett-Hart and Aaron Boyd, violist Pierre Lapointe, and cellist Dane Johansen perform Mozart's String Quartet in G Major, K. 387; Dutilleux's “Ainsi la nuit”; and Ravel's Quartet in F Major.
The Escher Quartet (www.escherquartet.com) takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired as it was by Escher's method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.
Within months of its inception in 2005, the Escher Quartet was invited by Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet in Residence at their summer festivals: the Young Artists Program at Canada's National Arts Centre, and the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, N.Y.
The Escher has since collaborated with artists such as Khatia Buniatishvili, Leon Fleischer, David Finckel, Wu Han, Lynn Harrell, Joseph Kalichstein, and Jason Vieaux, as well as jazz vocalist Kurt Elling.
This season sees the quartet début at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, and at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.