Nov. 12: The Jupiter Quartet Continue Their Season at Krannert Center Performing the Music of Kati Agócs, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert
Photo of the Jupiter Quartet by Todd Rosenberg available in high resolution at www.jensenartists.com/artists-profiles/jupiter-string
The Jupiter Quartet Continues Concert Season
Presented by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Performing Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Kati Agócs
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30pm
University of Illinois | Krannert Center | Foellinger Great Hall | 500 S Goodwin Ave. | Urbana, IL
Tickets and Information
“technical finesse and rare expressive maturity”
– The New Yorker
Urbana, IL – On Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30pm, the Jupiter String Quartet continues its season at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts’s Foellinger Great Hall (500 S. Goodwin Ave), with an intriguing, contrast-driven concert featuring three works that collectively span more than two centuries and several musical eras. The program includes Ludwig van Beethoven’s intense Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 (1810); Kati Agócs’ lyrical Imprimatur (2018); and Franz Schubert’s epic Quartet in G Major, D. 887 (1826).
While Beethoven and Schubert’s works form a bridge between the end of the Classical era and beginning of the Romantic era, Kati Agócs’ work Imprimatur offers a welcome contrast to these two dramatic and serious pieces, focusing on uplifting positivity. Agócs says, “My piece is a meditation on spiritual lightness, expressing joy and affirmation that is celebratory in tone, via a collective (shared) energy.” Imprimatur was co-commissioned for the Jupiter Quartet’s fifteenth anniversary by the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Harvard Musical Association; and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“As always, we are excited to share some of our favorite works with our hometown audience, with whom we feel a special connection.” says the Jupiter Quartet. ”This particular program offers great contrast, starting with the highly condensed drama of the Beethoven Op. 95 quartet, continuing through the sustained lyricism of the Agócs, and ending with the massively built Schubert G Major, which has an almost orchestral texture and breadth.”
Founded in 2001, the Jupiter Quartet is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music, and exudes an energy that is at once friendly, knowledgeable, and adventurous. The New Yorker states, “The Jupiter String Quartet, an ensemble of eloquent intensity, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene.”
The Quartet has been in residence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2012, where they maintain private studios and direct the chamber music program. This season, they will perform two more concerts at the Krannert Center, including a program of sextets with two of their Ying Quartet colleagues, violist Phillip Ying and cellist David Ying on February 4, 2025; and a concert of octets including the Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat Major with the Aris Quartet on March 13, 2025.
Based in Urbana, IL and giving concerts all over the country, the Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law). The Quartet has performed in some of the world’s finest halls, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace, Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall, and more.
For Calendar Editors:
Description: The Jupiter Quartet, the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, which The New Yorker describes as having “technical finesse and rare expressive maturity,” will perform a bold and stylistically diverse concert program, featuring music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Kati Agócs, and Franz Schubert.
Concert details:
Who: Jupiter String Quartet
What: Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Kati Agócs, and Franz Schubert
When: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 7:30pm
Where: University of Illinois; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Foellinger Great Hall
500 S Goodwin Ave.; Urbana, IL
Tickets and information: https://krannertcenter.com/events/jupiter-string-quartet-4