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SUMMARY:White Nights Emily Carr String Quartet
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/white-nights-emily-carr-string-quartet/
LOCATION:Victoria Conservatory of Music :: 900 Johnson St. Victoria, V8V 3N4
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: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=0D=0A=
and charming musical impulses.", Dr. Min will join forces with the=0D=0A=
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=0D=0A=
orchestras and has been a professor at universities in Washington,=0D=0A=
Pennsylvania, and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.=0D=0A=
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  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=0D=0A=
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of the most intensely driven and eloquently passionate playing I have=0D=0A=
heard in some time". The ECSQ has performed in venues as diverse as the=0D=0A=
Cultural Universitat Istanbul, The Banff Centre and Stanford University.=0D=0A=
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Shosatkovich's=0D=0A=
piano quintet  found immediate popular and  critical success. The=0D=0A=
Moscow paper, the LiteraturnayaGazeta describes the work as "a portrait=0D=0A=
of our age...the rich-toned, perfect voice of the present". "White=0D=0A=
Nights" will also include Alfred Schnittke's  popular string quartet=0D=0A=
#3, a work which juxtaposes styles from three distinct periods of=0D=0A=
classical music: the renaissance, classical and 20th century.  Op.33=0D=0A=
no.2 ("The Joke") from Haydn's Russian quartets will round out the=0D=0A=
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  The Emily Carr String Quartet and Lorraine Min are pleased to offer this concert free to  students 18 and under.=0D=0A=
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