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Austin’s Artisan String Quartet
Re-named and with a new lineup, the Artisan String Quartet joins the roster of Austin’s chamber ensembles.
The quartet features violinists Richard Kilmer and Paula E. Bird, violist Bruce William and Douglas Harvey, principal cellist of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra. Harvey recently won Best Instrumentalist from the Austin Critics’ Table. Read an interview with him here.
The group recently recorded part of the soundtrack ‘When I Rise,’ the documentary about Barbara Conrad Smith, the opera singer who as a young student at UT in the 1950s, faced discrimination and ended up becoming a Civil Rights newsmaker. Austin filmmaker Mat Hames premiered ‘When I Rise’ this year at SXSW. Read about the film and Smith here.
Next week, the foursome will play Mozart’s String Quartet in C major aka the “Dissonance” quartet and Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, the French composer’s only string quartet
8 p.m. July 15
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 8134 Mesa Dr.
Tix: $10-$20
www.artisanquartet.com
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