The Eybler Quartet in Concert

Name: The Eybler Quartet in Concert
Start: 2026-03-20T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 383 Huron Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 2G5

Schedule

Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

383 Huron Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 2G5 | Toronto, ON

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-eybler-quartet-live-in-concert-tickets-1520390802819?aff=odcleoeventsincollection
Friends of Music at St. Thomas's is excited to present the Eybler Quartet! Join them for an evening of Haydn, Mozart and Josef Mysliveček. They will present Joseph Haydn’s stupendously masterful op. 71 no. 2 in D major, Mozart’s Quartet in A major, K. 464 dedicated to Haydn, as well as the rarely heard Quartet op. posthumous no. 3 in B flat major by Josef Mysliveček, one of Mozart’s closest friends.
About the Artists
The Eybler Quartet explores the works of the first century and a half of the string quartet, with a healthy attention to lesser known composers such as their namesake, Joseph Leopold Edler von Eybler.
Violinists Julia Wedman and Patricia Ahern, and violist Patrick G. Jordan are members of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Cellist Margaret Gay is much in demand as both a modern and period instrument player.
The group brings a unique combination of talents and skills: razor-sharp ensemble skills, technical prowess, expertise in period instrument performance and an unquenchable passion for the repertoire. The Toronto-based ensemble’s live performances have consistently garnered praise as “glowing and committed,” “spirited” and “lively and energizing.” Their recording of Joseph Haydn’s Op. 33 String Quartets for the Analekta label was called “simply a treasure” by Early Music America: “the tempos are beautifully chosen, the ensemble perfect, and the intonation absolutely pure.“ Their recording with clarinetist Jane Booth won praise from Gramophone for being “totally engaging performances that breathe life into Backofen’s music”.