BRUNSWICK
Still in the midst of its 2017-18 season, the DaPonte String Quartet is busy making plans for its next one.
Pianist Peter Serkin will join the quartet for its 2018- 19 season launch gala event, which will take at Bowdoin College in June. The DaPonte String Quartet will kick off its 27th season with its Spring FanFare concert at Studzinski Recital Hall at 6:30 p.m. June 6. They will perform Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet Op. 44 in E flat Major and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet Op. 34 in F minor.
“Our 25th anniversary Gala at Studzinski Hall with pianist Awadagin Pratt was such a success, we wanted to do it again,” said Amy Mac- Donald, executive director of Friends of DaPonte String Quartet. “But we can only celebrate our 25th anniversary so many times, so we decided to turn it into an annual celebration to launch our new season. We are absolutely delighted that Mr. Serkin is able to join us for this, our first Spring FanFare season-kickoff concert.”
Serkin’s link to the DaPonte Quartet goes back decades, to when he first met and played with DSQ violinist Lydia Forbes. His own musical heritage extends over generations: His grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. A dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Serkin has collaborated with Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, Yo-Yo Ma, the Budapest, Guarneri, Orion, Shanghai, and Dover String Quartets and TASHI, of which he was a founding member. He has also performed with the world’s major symphony orchestras, led by such eminent conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Eugene Ormandy, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, and James Levine. He has a special feeling for both Brahms and Schumann, having recently made several arrangements of four-hand music by Schumann for various chamber ensembles as well as transcribing Brahms’s organ Chorale-Preludes for one piano, four hands.
Tickets for the concert are $65 and are available at daponte.org. For more information, call (207) 529-4555.
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