This special edition of the School of the Arts e-newsletter contains details about three outstanding Guest Artists performing Virtuoso Series Concert at the University Center for the Arts in the next few days.
The Borromeo String Quartet continue their "quartet-in-residence" program with CSU for a fourth year. Their excellence and dedication to their craft, as well as to music education advocacy, are a tremendous gift to everyone who hears them perform.
Guadalupe López Pérez will surprise and delight you with Mexican, Argentinean and Brazilian composed piano music, and the piano and violin duo of Hasse Borup and Mary Kathleen Ernst will be perfection!
CSU has established a great tradition of presenting excellent guest artists to the Fort Collins and campus communities. These internationally acclaimed artists perform in the most famous venues around the world, and at much higher ticket prices.
Don't miss your chance to hear the best this week at the UCA - we look forward to seeing you soon!
Sincerely,
Marketing and Publicity Director, School of the Arts |
| BORROMEO STRING QUARTET |
CSU is fortunate to have the Borromeo String Quartet (The Boston Globe calls them 'simply the best') perform at the University Arts Center on Friday night, April 10. They will play a mid Beethoven quartet (op. 59,1) and will be joined by the CSU Faculty String Quartet for an octet performance celebrating Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's 200th birthday.
The new Fab Four
If there was ever a group of classical musicians who arrived at a concert to be met by hoards of screaming fans, the Borromeo String Quartet would be it.
One of the most sought after string quartets in the world, the Borromeo travels internationally to play more than 100 concerts a year. This Friday, April 10, they'll be playing at Colorado State in the University Center for the Arts.
 'Unbridled joy in the music'
Suffice to say that listening to this group of youthful, masterful musicians (comprised of Nicholas Kitchen, Violin, Kristopher Tong, Violin, Mai Motobuchi, Viola, and Yeesun Kim, Cello) does not evoke images of scowling men in powdered wigs.
"The Borromeos are bent on getting us to feel the unbridled joy in the music," says Cathy Fuller of National Public Radio. "The Borromeos rarely play it safe. They're champions of new music... but they also thrive on making the old classics sound vital and fresh."A Washington Post critic, after hearing the Borromeo play the music of Joseph Haydn (in his time considered the preeminent composer of music for the string quartet) wrote: "The Borromeo made the composer sound like a life-loving creature of hearty appetites and generous wit."
Paying it forward
In addition to performing, the Borromeo Quartet relishes and is committed to educating young musicians. Over the past several years they've been involved in bringing music education to high school students through distance learning. During their residency at CSU, the quartet will work with students participating in the CSU Pre-College Chamber Music Festival at CSU. READ MORE.
In Maine, for example, the Department of Education used Asynchronous Transmission Mode technology to link the quartet (sitting with a live audience in Augusta) with schools in the farthest regions of the state. Students listened to a lecture on the history of the string quartet, chatted with the musicians, and heard the Borromeo perform. "The danger of not doing programs like this is that there are people who might enjoy what the arts promise, but they will never know what's out there because they don't have the exposure," said Kitchen, first violinist.
In Japan, a similar effort involved an even wider-reaching broadcast that allowed the quartet to talk with students all over the country and demonstrate techniques for playing the violin, viola, and cello.
 Friday night's performance
These tech savvy performers will share something of their blend of art, science, and technology at Friday night's performance in the exquisite Griffin Concert Hall at the University Center for the Arts.
The quartet will take their seats in front of four modified music stands, each holding a MacBook. The monitors will glow blue in the dim light of the stage and the quartet will "turn" their pages with floor pedals plugged into USB ports.
When & Where
Friday, April 10, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA, $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $15/public - BUY TICKETS
Virtuoso Series Concerts are followed by Meet the Artist receptions sponsored by:
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| WORLD PIANO MUSIC |
 The Virtuoso Series Concerts continue with Guest Artist Guadalupe López Pérez, piano, presenting an evening of world piano music by Mexican, Argentinean and Brazilian composers.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Guadalupe López Pérez has had an intense career as a soloist and chamber musician, playing numerous recitals and master classes in her native Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada and Europe. She is Professor of piano at the Facultad de Musica en la Universidad de Xalapa, where she has instructed for 32 years and has served as Director of the School of Music from 2003 to 2007.
 In addition to her orchestral and solo performances, Ms. López Pérez is a member of the Trio Xallitic and Duo Praga, playing concerts for radio and television.
When & Where
Monday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Griffin Concert Hall, UCA, $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $15/public - BUY TICKETS
Virtuoso Series Concerts are followed by Meet the Artist receptions sponsored by:
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| VIOLIN AND PIANO DUO |
 The School of the Arts at Colorado State University presents "Mainly Shatin" with renowned Guest Artists Hasse Borup, violin, and Mary Kathleen Ernst, piano, and featuring compositions of award-winning Judith Shatin.
Hasse Borup, Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the University of Utah School of the Arts, and internationally acclaimed pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst, perform Mozart's Sonata in Bb major, K. 454, several compositions by Judith Shatin (four-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship), and Franck's Sonata for Violin and Piano. Borup and Ernst recently released their debut recording, American Fantasies, on Centaur Records.
Selections from Judith Shatin include Icarus, Tower of Eight Winds, and Fledermaus Fantasy. Shatin's inspirations range from myth, poetry, and animals to her Jewish heritage. She has been honored with four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, as well as awards from the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, the New Jersey State Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Shatin is currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music, which she founded at the University of Virginia in 1987.
Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Organ Recital Hall, UCA, $5/CSU students, $5/youth (ages 6 - 17), $15/public - BUY TICKETS Virtuoso Series Concerts are followed by Meet the Artist receptions sponsored by:
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