Quartet San Francisco to play year’s first Music Monday

Grammy-nominated artists Quartet San Francisco will play the first show of the 2011-2012 Music Monday season on Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on Cornell College’s campus.

Grammy nominees for their releases in 2009, 2006 and 2007, and International Tango competition winners (New York, 2004), Quartet San Francisco expresses itself in its agility and standout virtuosic playing. As crossover specialists they excel in multiple styles from jazz to tango, pop to funk, blues to bluegrass, gypsy swing to big band and beyond.

Since its concert debut in 2001, Quartet San Francisco has offered its exclusive and groundbreaking literature to local, national and international audiences in a variety of venues that include tango and concert halls, jazz festivals, museums, and classrooms. In 2002 the quartet began its onstage collaborations with tango dancers. In the 2004-2006 academic years the quartet was in residence at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

In 2009 Quartet San Francisco celebrated the music of the great Dave Brubeck with their release QSF Plays Brubeck which was awarded two Grammy nominations and featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday in a studio interview. Their Latin and tango CD, Látigo (2006), was honored with Grammy nominations for Best Classical Crossover and Best Engineered, Classical. The quartet members were again Classical Crossover Grammy nominees for Whirled Chamber Music (2007), “…what could easily be the most cheerful and brilliantly-executed release of 2007” (Judith Schlesinger,All About Jazz).

The members are: Jeremy Cohen, Violin; Alisa Rose, Violin; Keith Lawrence, Viola; and Kelley Maulbetsch, Cello.

You can see the complete schedule for Music Mondays here.

Although elevator construction begins this fall weather permitting, King Chapel will not be handicap accessible for these Music Mondays concerts.