New York Philharmonic String Quartet

Name: New York Philharmonic String Quartet
Start: 2025-02-07T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Schedule

Fri, 07 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Houston, TX

Longtime DACAMERA favorites, the members of the New York Philharmonic String Quartet are principal musicians from the esteemed orchestra. Multiple prize winners all, they have appeared as concerto soloists with the Philharmonic and orchestras around the world, and their quartet performances are rare and cherished events.
American composer Florence Price was the first Black woman to have her music played by a major orchestra, with the world premiere of her Symphony No. 1 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933. We hear in this program Price’s connection to Antonin Dvořák, who was a direct musical influence on Price through her studies with one of Dvořák’s pupils during his American period.
Program
Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Florence Price: String Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Dvořák: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 61, No. 11
Musicians
Frank Huang, violin; Qianqian Li, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Carter Brey, cello