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20, 2001 Lecture~Concert Series to host Quartetto Bernini Arkansas State University will host Quartetto Bernini, a string quartet, on Tuesday, April 3, in the 
Fine Arts Center Recital Hall as part of the ASU Lecture~Concert Series.
The Fine Arts Center is located on Caraway Road at the Jonesboro campus.The Bernini will perform a program of Berio, Shostakovich and Beethoven at the ASU concert. Admission is free. Founded in Rome, the group is composed of four musicians who received their musical training in Vienna, Luxembourg, Paris, Geneva, Osaka and Rome. The quartet has studied with Piero Farulli, a former viola player of the Quartetto Italiano. Since the autumn of 1998 they have been supported by ProQuartet of Paris, which has enabled them to study with members of the La Salle, Tokyo and Alban Berg quartets. They were invited by Wilhelm Melcher of the Melos Quartet to participate in the Oberstdorfer Musiksommer during August 1999. Members Marco Serino, Gabriele Croci and Valeriano Taddeo were first violin, viola and cello, respectively, of the former Quartetto Santa Cecilia. While performing with this ensemble, they received awards in several international competitions. The recipient of first prize in the Japan Classical Music Competition in 1994, violinist Yoko Ichihara studied at the Osaka College of Music in her home country, Japan. Quartetto Bernini made its debut in 1999 at the Teatro Olimpico in Rome, as Quartet in Residence at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. The group has made several recordings for national and international television and radio, and was recently appointed "head of the school of chamber music and string department of the Academia Filarmonica Romana," according to a group spokesperson. Recently the quartet has toured throughout the United States, Germany, Spain and Turkey, performing several world premiers of contemporary music, most of which is dedicated to the quartet itself. They have performed in Italy’s most important concert series such as Perugia, Vercelli, Brescia, Fermo, Rome, and have also been featured with artists such as Paul Cortese, Jun Kanno and the Auer Quartet. Downloadable Image: Quartetto Bernini (457k) |
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