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The Martinu String Quartet in Concert
Venue: The Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Martinu Quartet
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 10:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Adults: $25.00 Students: $15.00

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Description:
The Floyd Center for the Arts and the Virginia Blue Ridge Music Festival presents The Martinu String Quartet in concert on Thursday, September 27, 2018.

Enjoy a wonderful evening of chamber music with the Martinu Quartet which is on tour from Czech Republic and brings their world renowned music to the Floyd Center for the Arts.

The Martin? Quartet, originally the Havlák Quartet, was formed in 1976 by the then students of the Prague Conservatoire, inspired by and modelled on such string quartets as the Vlach and the Smetana. They put favourable circumstances to good use by intensive practice and study of the quartet repertoire, resulting in seven prizes at important international competitions. They are prizewinner of the ARD Munich (Germany), Evian (France), Yehudi Menuhin (Portsmouth, Britain) and The Prague Spring competitions.

These successes stood at the start-line of the Quartet’s brilliant international career, placing it firmly in the internationally respected Czech string-quartet tradition.

The original Havlák Quartet changed its name in 1985 as a token of its commitment to promote the work of one of the great masters of Czech music, Bohuslav Martin?. Their efforts have been rewarded by a MIDEM prize in Cannes in 2004 for the best CD of the year in the chamber music/solo category.

Although the main weight of its repertoire is centered on the music of the world’s great composers, the Quartet takes pleasure in seeking out neglected works and in giving first performances of pieces by contemporary composers.

Apart from its busy concert schedule which takes in prestigious podiums at home and abroad, the Martin? Quartet plays on the Czech Radio, as it has done on the BBC, Radio France, ARD and ORF.

Links:

• http://www.martinuquartet.eu/
• https://www.facebook.com/MartinuQuartet

Tickets for adults are $25.00 in advance and student tickets are $15.00 in advance and at the door.

To purchase tickets online, visit: http://floydartcenter.org/the-martinu-quartet-september-27-2018-730-pm/.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/EYUC2g9.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://floydartcenter.org/the-martinu-quartet-september-27-2018-730-pm/ or https://www.facebook.com/FloydArts or call 540-745-2784.