2010 - 2011 Season 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   

Music from the Western Reserve to Present Third Concert of Stellar 2010-11 Season. 

Music from the Western Reserve will present another winning performance with the renowned Miami String Quartet on Sunday, November 7 at 5:00 pm at Christ Church Episcopal, located at 21 Aurora Street, Hudson, OH

One of the most sought after quartets in chamber music today, the Miami String Quartet has appeared extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Highlights of recent seasons include performances in New York at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, engagements in Boston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Paul, and its own concert series in Palm Beach, Florida. International highlights include appearances in Bern, Cologne, Istanbul, Lausanne, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Taipei and Paris. The Quartet has recently toured with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and they appear annually with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

In 2003, the Miami Quartet was named visiting Quartet in Residence at the Hartt School in Hartford, CT.  The following year the Quartet began as faculty members of Kent State University where they were named Quartet in Residence. The MSQ has served as Quartet in Residence at Florida International University and was also the resident ensemble of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two. In September 2000 the ensemble was awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, which brought with it several prestigious performances.

The Miami String Quartet is in demand at many of the country's great festivals. The Quartet serves as resident ensemble at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, as well as appearing at Chamber Music Northwest, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Rutgers Summerfest, Music from Angel Fire, Virginia Arts Festival where it is the resident ensemble - and at the festivals of La Jolla, Santa Fe, Pensacola and Brevard, North Carolina.

In 1992, the Miami String Quartet became the first string quartet in a decade to win First Prize of the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition. The Miami String Quartet has also won recognition in competitions throughout the world; as laureate of the 1993 Evian Competition, 1991 London String Quartet Competition, and as the 1989 Grand Prize Winner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

The ensemble's interest in new music has led to many commissions and premieres. In March 2000, the players gave the world premiere of Augusta Reed Thomas' "Invocations." In the 1997-98 season, the Quartet presented the American premieres of Quartet Nos. 1 and 2 by Peteris Vasks, which met with enormous acclaim and were subsequently recorded; Vasks' Quartet No. 3 has since become a signature piece for the ensemble.  

Season subscriptions can be purchased online at www.MFTWR.org   Single tickets $15.00 can be purchased online at www.MFTWR.org, at The Learned Owl in Hudson or at the door concert night.  Students attend the concerts at no cost and may get tickets at the door. For more information on the 2010-2011 season, visit www.MFTWR.org.

Media Inquiries:

Elisabeth Hugh, General Manager
Music from The Western Reserve
P.O. Box 998 - Hudson, OH 44236

info@mftwr.org