| Dear
Friends, This is a rare opportunity to hear magnificent chamber music and have a memorable experience- great music, food and meeting people committed to great Arts. Do plan on attending. Call (202)625-2361 or order online at www.embassyseries.org. Enjoy the other superb concerts of “March Madness.” Experience the unique! Minetti String Quartet from
Austria
Emanuel Salvador, violin
Claudia Galli, soprano
Adrian Daurov, cello
“March Madness" Discounts Buy all 4 concerts
and receive a 15% discount; 3 concerts- 10% discount. 2 concerts- 5% discount.
Receive 1 free ticket for persons 7- 21 years (ID required) at the Austrian
Embassy concert when you buy 2 full-price tickets ($65). This offer expires on
February 7, 2014 at midnight. These discounts are only available by calling
The Embassy Series at (202) 625- 2361. Full-price tickets available online
at www.embassyseries.org. NB:
Discounts cannot be combined with prior sales. Subscriptions of 6 or 8 concerts
with discounts are still available. |
The Minetti
Quartet has collected more important prizes than any ensemble since 2003
when it received the Haydn Award at the International Joseph Haydn Competition
in Vienna, followed by the International Rimbotti Competition for String
Quartet in Florence, the Franz Schubert Competition in Graz, the national
“Gradus ad Parnassum” Prize. Program: Beethoven: String Quartet, op.
18/2 in G Major; Arvo Pärt: Frates; Mendelssohn: String
Quartet, op 44/2 in e minor. $65/ hors-d’oeuvres, wine, cheese,
Strudel and sweets reception, catered by master chef Wilhelm Jonach. Gramophone
(UK) review of Minettis’ new CD: The Minettis’ clear lines and
faultless ensemble keep the phrasing simple and transparent, and there is some
heart-stoppingly well-controlled playing at the very top of the register in the
first violin.
Performed as a
soloist and chamber musician- St.. Martin-in-the-Fields and Southwark Cathedral
(London), Philharmonic Hall (Uralsk – Kazakhstan), Gulbenkian
Auditório 2, Rivoli Theatre and Centro Cultural de Belém
(Portugal), Codarts’ Muziksaal (Rotterdam), First prize at Isolde Menges
(RCM) and Beckenham Festival competitions; Barbirolli Memorial and Wolfson
Foundation Award. Program: Beethoven ; Szymanowski – Mythes; A.
Pärt - Spiegel am Spiegel; J. Brahms - Sonata No.3 in D minor op. 108;
$150/Portuguese buffet
Soprano Claudia
Galli was born in Luxembourg. She was a member of the Atelier Lyrique of the
Opéra National de Paris, singing, the Princess in Ravel’s
L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Carolina in Cimarosa’s Il
matrimonio segreto and Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. At the
Opéra National de Paris, she was heard between 2008 and 2011 in
Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. In January 2011, Claudia Galli took on
the role of Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, performed under Claude
Schnitzler’s direction at the Opéra-Théâtre de Metz as
well as the Opéra National de Lorraine. Program: Schumann, Richard
Strauss, Brahms. Wolf, Zemlinsky, Berg. $110/elegant reception and valet
parking included.
A native of St.
Petersburg, Russian cellist ADRIAN DAUROV is one of the most dazzling artists
of his generation. The New York-based and Juilliard-trained, this Award-winning
cellist, who has performed on major concert stages, like Carnegie Hall, Avery
Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall, St.Petersburg Philharmonic as a soloist, recitalist
and chamber musician, Adrian is a versatile player, performs often with Pop and
Rock artists, such as Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, The Roots, The
Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Ros.
Program: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov $150/Russian buffet
reception/valet parking