Steeple Concerts to present Tesla Quartet this Sunday September 26th
Steeple Concerts will launch the 2021-22 season with a performance by the prestigious Tesla Quartet. Tesla is praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music). Now in their second decade, the quartet performs regularly across North America, Europe, as well as touring in Asia and Brazil. Recent highlights include their debut at New York’s Lincoln Center, a return to London’s Wigmore Hall, and performances at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall as winners of the prestigious John Lad Prize.
This “technically superb” string quartet “brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire” (The Strad). Formed at The Juilliard School in 2008, Tesla quickly established itself as one of the most promising young ensembles in New York, and has quickly proven to be one of the most in-demand American string quartets on today's concert scene.
The program will includes works by Franz Schubert (String Quartet No. 15 in G major) and Caroline Shaw (Plan & Elevation: The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks). In 2013, Ms. Shaw (b. 1981) became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Partita for 8 Voices.
The season continues on Sunday, November 14, when Steeple Concerts will present pianist Min Kwon in a solo recital. Dr. Kwon has appeared as soloist with distinguished orchestras across the US and around the world.
The concert on Sunday, January 23 brings the internationally respected baroque cellist and violist da gamba Shirley Hunt and one of North America's leading exponents of historical keyboard instruments, Sylvia Berry, to downtown Westfield.
Sunday, March 27, showcases The Westerlies, a brass quartet based in New York with a program that will explore jazz, roots and chamber music influences.
The season concludes on Sunday, May 15, with the traditional Masterworks Concert featuring the choir of St. Paul’s Church with orchestra. The concert is always a highlight of the season and offers an opportunity to hear major works for chorus and orchestra in a live setting.
Season subscriptions, as well as tickets to individual concerts, are also available on the Steeple Concerts website. Adult subscriptions to the full season are priced at $100 (a savings of $35 off the individual ticket prices), with student subscriptions at $40. Individual tickets to the first four concerts are $25 for adults and $10 for students, with tickets for the Masterworks Concert priced at $35 for adults and $15 for students.