Delgani IV – Intimate Letters
$30 ($5 student)
- Anthea Kreston, violin
- Jannie Wei, violin
- Kimberlee Uwate, viola
- Eric Alterman, cello
Franz Schubert — String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887, Op. 161
"Intimate Letters" concludes our 9th season with two landmark quartets from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Janacek's "Intimate Letters" is a portrait of passionate, unreciprocated love, seen through the hundreds of letters the composer exchanged with a much younger, married woman. The torment of love is an ever-present theme in Schubert's music, especially in his lieder, which open the program. We conclude our season with his stunning and expansive Quartet in G major, Schubert's last string quartet.
Delgani Quartet offers five live performances of this program in four cities, May 5-12. Click "More info" for details.
About Anthea Kreston, violin
Violinist Anthea Kreston sometimes just needs to pinch herself. How did she get so lucky? She was the first American violinist to play in a major European string quartet, the Artemis Quartet – and she travelled the world, performing on some of the most legendary stages a person could dream of, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore – from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Seoul. She was a Professor at the Universität der Kunste Berlin, where Clara Schumann and Schoenberg taught. She also was a Master Teacher at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel in Brussels, where her students won competitions from Australia to New York. She loves to write – penning a classical music blog which was one of the top-5 most read music blogs internationally, and has an awesome husband and two funny and generous daughters. Her recent release on Warner Classics is a recording of Shostakovich Quartets and Piano Quintet, and she has hosted her own podcast from the Boulez Hall in the heart of Berlin. She has played in the Berlin Philharmonic, and as concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. But most of all, she loves being with her family, growing tomatoes, and petting bunnies.
https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/akrestonAbout Jannie Wei, violin
https://eugenesymphony.org/about-us/get-to-know-us/musicians/strings/jannie-wei