The UVA Department of Music presents the Aeolus Quartet on Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 in Old Cabell Hall. This free event is sponsored by the UVA Arts Council | Enriching the Arts on Grounds and by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust.

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings "worthy of a major-league quartet" (Dallas Morning News). Formed in 2008, the Quartet is comprised of violinists Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violist Caitlin Lynch, and cellist Jia Kim.

For more information about this event, please visit https://music.virginia.edu/aeolus-quartet.

Concert Program: Homeward

Jessie Montgomery "Strum"

Paul Wiancko LIFT

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Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op.80

I. Allegro vivace assai

II. Allegro assai

III. Adagio

IV. Finale. Allegro molto

Homeward Program Note:

Montgomery’s ‘Strum’ takes us on a textural journey that layers voice after voice over a pizzicato underpinning, a “fleeting nostalgia that transforms into ecstatic celebration.” Exploring the line where light and shadow meet, Wiancko’s exuberant, modern-day masterpiece LIFT is “an investigation of elation and journey of a soul.” The program is anchored by Mendelssohn’s darkly tragic and tenderly nostalgic Quartet in F minor, Op 80. Written in the wake of his beloved sister Fanny’s death, this music traces Mendelssohn’s journey through grief as he explores love, loss, and a sense of home in this richly expressive work.

Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA’s historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. Parking is available in the central grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner. Handicap parking is available in the small parking lot adjacent to Bryan Hall.

All programs are subject to change.

For more information, please call the Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or send a message to music@virginia.edu.