The San Francisco-based but world-traveling Cypress String Quartet will inaugurate the Sonoma Classical Music Society’s seventh concert season with a November 21 performance at Burlingame Hall.
Formed in 1996, the Cypress String Quartet is Cecily Ward, violin, Tom Stone, violin, Ethan Filner, viola, and Jennifer Kloetzel, cello. The members trained individually at institutions including the Juilliard School, Interlochen Arts Academy, Cleveland Institute of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Royal Academy of Music.
For the 3 p.m. concert, Cypress String Quartet will perform Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, K. 465, nicknamed “Dissonant,” the last of the set of six quartets which Mozart dedicated to his friend Franz Joseph Haydn and one of his most famous works; Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, a set of delightful dances which integrates modernist vocabulary, neoclassical elements, jazz and dance rhythms from a variety of sources and cultures; and Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, op. 10, premiered in December 1893, influenced by Javanese gamelan music, and based solely on four tones and their relation to one another.
The program schedule for the remainder of the year will be announced at the concert.
Tickets are $20 for members of the Society, $25 for adults, and $10 for students. They will be available at sonomaclassical.org, Reader’s Books, Pharmaca, and at the door at 252 West Spain St.
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