Serafin Ensemble's AMERICAN SALUTE
Schedule
Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Milton Theatre | Milton, DE
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SERAFIN ENSEMBLE'S AMERICAN SALUTEArtists: Hal Grossman and Kate Ransom, violin; Amadi Azikiwe, viola; Jacques-Pierre Malan, cello
As Veteran's Day approaches, this program pays tribute to our country, featuring compositions written in America from the 1890’s to today. Represented here is an eclectic array of works by African American composers William Grant Still and Florence Price, Jewish composer Peter Schickele, and the living composer Jennifer Higdon. Complementing a reflective and soulful set of works (a setting of “Amazing Grace” and works titled “Adoration” and “Little Suite for Autumn”) will be Still's lively Panamanian Dances, and closes with the ever-popular "American Quartet" by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, written during the time he lived in the United States. The program traverses a vast creative landscape inspired by the grand diversity of our land and people.
About Serafin Ensemble
Serafin Ensemble, “The Serafins,” is a group of internationally acclaimed performing artists (string, wind, piano and vocalists) devoted to collaborative chamber music performances of repertoire for up to eight players. The ensemble evolved from the former Serafin String Quartet and continues the nearly two-decade-long Serafin legacy of passionate commitment to presenting exceptional performances of small ensemble repertoire.
Serafin Ensemble roster artists are devoted to collaborative chamber music performance as an important aspect of their professional lives. They are bound together by mutual respect and camaraderie, and a shared passion for small ensemble repertoire and the collaborative process. The goal of the ensemble is to prepare and share with audiences, performances of great masterworks and lesser-known works for an unconducted ensemble of two to eight players. Occasionally, larger works or solo works are also included in the programming.
The individual roster artists of Serafin Ensemble have been heralded around the globe for concerts and recordings, acclaimed in the press, and received international prizes and awards.
Hailed for “silken finesse and gritty vibrancy” by Gramophone Magazine and for “playing with style and sophistication” by The Strad Magazine, Serafin String Quartet debuted at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2004 and returned to Weill Recital Hall most recently in 2016 for a program that included New York premieres of two works by composer Julia Adolphe. Featured by Strings Magazine for innovation in concert programming, the Quartet consistently received superlatives in the press and ovations from audiences around the nation. Serafin Quartet served for nine years as Quartet in Residence at the University of Delaware and performed in the UK, as well as in fifteen states across the US, with their primary performance region being the mid-Atlantic and northeast.
Serafin Ensemble takes its name from master violin maker, Sanctus Serafin, who in 1728 crafted the violin currently played by Serafin founder and Artistic Director, Kate Ransom. The Serafin String Quartet thrived for over two decades thanks, in part, to generous support from Dr. William J. Stegeman, Ph.D.
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Milton Theatre, 110 Union St, Milton, DE 19968-1618, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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