by Delaney Meyers
ENCORE Chamber Music festival continued on Sunday, June 17 at Gilmour Academy’s Tudor House with Mozart’s String Quintet No. 3 in C and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. Festival director and violinist Jinjoo Cho and faculty artists violist Eric Wong and cellist Si-Yan Darren Li were joined by guest violist Mathieu Herzog, as well as two ENCORE Festival student artists, violinist Aaron Chan and cellist Tate Zawadiuk. [Read more…]
After mixing up the start time, I arrived to the Miró Quartet concert on Friday evening, June 8 just in time to witness the aftermath of violist John Largess’ two broken strings. For their relatively short length and narrow width, those strings caused quite the wave of amused chatter in the Tudor House at Gilmour Academy.