by Mike Telin

What if you gave a concert and nobody came? “We were all having [nightmares] about this,” violinist Sarah McElravy nervously confessed to a near-capacity audience who had gathered in Reinberger Hall at Severance Hall on Tuesday, April 2. The occasion was the inaugural concert of the Linden String Quartet’s own Parallels Cleveland Chamber Music Series which featured the music of Haydn, Bolcom and Schumann.

Founded in the spring of 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Linden Quartet (violinists Sarah McElravy and Catherine Cosbey, violist Eric Wong and cellist Felix Umansky) have quickly established an impressive reputation on the national and international chamber music circuit. [Read more…]