by Mike Telin

It appears that Northeast Ohio’s classical music organizations are going to be wasting no time getting back into full swing after the holidays. A quick check of our Concert Listings page reveals that almost as soon as 2015 is upon us, audiences will have plenty of concerts to choose from. However, the prize for being first out of the blocks goes to the Oberlin Conservatory.

On Wednesday, January 6 at 8:00 in Kulas Recital Hall, the Wasmuth Quartet (above), Brendan Shea and Jonathan Ong, violins, Abigail Rojansky, viola, and Warren Hagerty, cello, will present the first concert of the Oberlin Chamber Music Festival. The program includes Joseph Haydn’s Quartet in C, op. 74, no. 1, Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz in E-flat and Györgi Ligeti’s Quartet No. 1, “Métamorphoses nocturnes.” [Read more…]