Centaur to Release SSQ’s First Commercial Disc!
Centaur will release the Serafin Quartet’s first commercial recording this season.
The cd was recorded in June 2009 in Gore Hall on the UD campus and is in production for release
later this season. It will feature Serafin String Quartet performing works by Dvorak, Barber,
Gershwin and William Grant Still.
SSQ featured on Master Players series - Fall 2009 - at University of Delaware!
Serafin String Quartet will perform in November 2009 on the University of Delaware’s
Master Players series in Gore Hall on the UD
campus. By special invitation and request of Professor Xiang Gao, the quartet will present works by
Barber and Mendelssohn, along with works by Turina and William Grant Still.
Collaborations include a Poet and a Composer and feature Mozart, Einstein and Webster the Spider!!
SSQ collaborates this season composer/harpist Valerie Von Pechy Whitcup in presentations of
her work, Webster the Musical Spider (November 2009). In January 2010, poet Kate
Light and SSQ present her creation, Einstein’s Mozart: Two Genuises!
Performances will all take place at The
Music School of Delaware’s Wilmington and Milford branches.
Barber Centennial and Mendelssohn Bicentennial– SSQ Celebrates A Year of Birthdays!
Serafin String Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op.44 #1,
in celebration of 200 years since the composer’s birth in 1809. Fall 2009 concerts will include this
high energy work - full of the youthful energy, delicate sweetness and the panache for which Mendelssohn
is particularly known. Also, SSQ will present the Barber String Quartet, the centerpiece of which is his
famous Adagio. 2010 is the centenary of the composer’s birth year, 1910.
Sound Samples For Your Listening Pleasure!
Sound samples are available for your listening pleasure! Please visit the
Listen page of the website to hear selections played by the
Serafins, recorded live in spring 2008.
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