White Nights Emily Carr String Quartet

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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM

Victoria, BC - Canadian virtuoso pianist Dr. Lorraine Min will be performing with The Emily Carr String Quartet in a program of Russian music entitled "White Nights" at the Alix Goolden Hall on May 5th at 8:00 pm. A doctoral program graduate of the Julliard School of Music and hailed by the NY Times as having a "crystalline sound�characterful
and charming musical impulses.", Dr. Min will join forces with the
Emily Carr String Quartet to perform Shostakovich's riveting Piano quintet. Dr. Min has performed internationally in world renowned venues such as New York�s Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, Carnegie�s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Vancouver�s Orpheum Theatre and Chan Centre. She has been concerto soloist with numerous
orchestras and has been a professor at universities in Washington,
Pennsylvania, and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


The Emily Carr String quartet is one of Victoria's foremost musical ensembles. They have collaborated with artists such as Jamie Parker and Banff International String Quartet competition winners the Tin Alley Quartet to rave reviews. Deryk Barker (Horizon) writes. "stunning,riveting performance" and
"some
of the most intensely driven and eloquently passionate playing I have
heard in some time". The ECSQ has performed in venues as diverse as the
Cultural Universitat Istanbul, The Banff Centre and Stanford University.


Shosatkovich's
piano quintet found immediate popular and critical success. The
Moscow paper, the LiteraturnayaGazeta describes the work as "a portrait
of our age...the rich-toned, perfect voice of the present". "White
Nights" will also include Alfred Schnittke's popular string quartet
#3, a work which juxtaposes styles from three distinct periods of
classical music: the renaissance, classical and 20th century. Op.33
no.2 ("The Joke") from Haydn's Russian quartets will round out the
program.


The Emily Carr String Quartet and Lorraine Min are pleased to offer this concert free to students 18 and under.