Curtis on Tour in Athens, Greece
Music of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and more
The award-winning Dover Quartet, Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at Curtis, and the Erinys Quartet, fellowship quartet in the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet Program, join forces for the Nights of Classical Music at the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece. This September marks the tenth annual festival of concerts featuring musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music. Performances include an exciting array of repertoire, from Mozart to riveting new works to Mendelssohn’s majestic Octet for Strings.
The tour continues with a performance by the Erinys Quartet in Berlin, performing works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Saariaho.
Nights of Classical Music at the Gennadius Library is presented by the Schwarz Foundation and the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Artists
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Dover Quartet String Quartet
Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the GRAMMY® nominated Dover Quartet has followed a “practically meteoric” (Strings) trajectory to become one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world. In addition to its faculty role as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy Center, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Artosphere, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its prestigious honors include the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award.
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Erinys Quartet String Quartet
Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States, and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. Since the autumn of 2023, they have been the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music.
In the 2024-25 season, the Erinys Quartet performs throughout Europe and the United States, with concerts in Greece, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Florida, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. They have also been featured in festivals and concert series such as the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, Festival Groba in Ponteareas, Spain, the inaugural Dover Quartet Workshop at the Curtis Institute, as well as the Professional String Quartet Seminar with the Pacifica Quartet and Atar Arad (Cleveland Quartet) at Indiana University.
Since 2021, the Erinys Quartet has been supported by Le Dimore del Quartetto, where they are also a part of the European Union-sponsored MERITA platform. In addition to their studies at the Curtis Institute, the members of the Erinys Quartet are pursuing a diploma in chamber music at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, under the tutelage of Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartett).
In 2023, the Erinys Quartet was awarded the Audience Prize Award of the City of Bad Tölz during the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition, the Esterházy Foundation Special Prize for best interpretation of a Haydn string quartet and were awarded the Bronze Medal Prize in the 2024 Fischoff Competition.
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- Date Sep 29, 2024
- Time 8:00 P.M.
- Location American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Cotsen Hall
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This performance is free and open to the public.
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Nights of Classical Music at the Gennadius Library is presented by the Schwarz Foundation and the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
