The Ariel Quartet: Free Hanukkah Concert & Baking Special [LIVE]
Free (Free (registration required))
Erwin Schulhoff — String Quartet No. 1
Steve Cohen / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — A Klezmer Nutcracker
Alexandra Kazovsky, violin
Gershon Gerchikov, violin
Jan Grüning, viola
Amit Even-Tov, cello
Erwin Schulhoff – String Quartet No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Steve Cohen – A Klezmer Nutcracker
The Ariel Quartet—violinist Alexandra “Sasha” Kazovsky; violinist Gershon Gerchikov; cellist Amit Even-Tov, and violist Jan Grüning—invites you to celebrate Hanukkah with an afternoon of music and holiday baking. They’ll share their family recipes for making Viennese Apple Strudel and Chocolate Babka, and there will even be a bake-off matching up Lebkuchen and Hanukkah doughnuts.
Friends since their early teenage years in Israel, Kazovsky, Gerchikov, and Even-Tov formed the ensemble two decades ago as young students at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance. Violist Jan Grüning joined in 2011. Today, the Ariel Quartet is distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, and has earned praise and fans worldwide.
“Hanukkah encourages each of us to find a way to radiate light into the world, and it’s in that same spirit that inspires that openness with which we try to approach our music-making and our relationships with each other, our audience, and the world beyond us. In our sound you can hear that we have been friends for a very long time. Our bake-off promises to show another, much sillier side of our friendship. We hope you’ll share in this fun with us,” says Even-Tov.
The Ariel Quartet enjoys a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad. For the past five years, the ensemble has dedicated a significant amount of its artistic energy and musical prowess to the Beethoven quartets, and has performed the complete Beethoven cycle on five occasions throughout the United States and Europe. The Ariel Quartet’s comprehensive series of program notes on the sixteen quartets remain open to the public on their website.
The livestream will take place at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific. Broadcasting live from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH.
The delicious and musical interactive livestream event is free to those who sign up at https://ourconcerts.live/shows/hanukkah and will be produced by OurConcerts.live.