One week as cellist of the Chiara Quartet

Monday, Feb. 8

Still basking in the glow of a review from yesterday.  Last night was fun – after performing in Brooklyn, we rushed to JFK in time to catch a 10:40 PM JetBlue flight to Boston, arriving at our hotel in Cambridge at 1 AM.  Today, we begin the first day of a 1-week residency at Harvard University.  Before this starts, however, we need to see to some immediate business: bow rehairs.  

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"The abundant skill and commitment this group brings to its music-making was clear from the opening quartet, Op. 18, No. 3, dispatched with both vigor and sensitivity. The evening's highlight was the massive hurtling fugue that closed the second work, Op. 59. No. 3. This is perhaps the most adrenaline-laced six minutes of music in the entire string quartet literature, and the Chiara upped the stakes by choosing a very brisk tempo. But they held it together with highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing that brought the movement across as the viscerally thrilling ride it is."
–Jeremy Eichler The, Boston Globe

"the Chiara -- was exemplary in all three pieces. The chiseled ensemble work brought out the astonishing craft and thrilling expressive range in Webern's writing (where the players' whisper-soft phrasing was truly breathtaking), and the vigor of the more extroverted playing proved a perfect fit with the first two movements of the Prokofiev and the outer movements of the Debussy."
– The Washington Post

"This outstanding group of young musicians made its debut last month at Meany Hall with a second performance at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard the following night. The program was eclectic, ranging all over the map, and the music-making of a high order."
– R.M. CAMPBELL, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"superb quartet...."
– Allan Kozinn, New York Times

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