Erinys Quartet
SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 at 7:30 PM
Program
Saariaho: Terra Memoria
Bartok:
String Quartet No. 3, Sz.85 Intermission
Beethoven:
String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op.127
Erinys Quartet appears by special arrangement with Curtis Artist Management at the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Erinys Quartet
Violin
Elizabeth Stewart
Joosep Reimaa
Viola
Marija Räisänen
Cello
Stergios Theodoridis
Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States, and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. Since the autumn of 2023, they have been the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music.
In the 2024-25 season, the Erinys Quartet performs throughout Europe and the United States, with concerts in Greece, Hungary, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Florida, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. They have also been featured in festivals and concert series such as the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, Festival Groba in Ponteareas, Spain, the inaugural Dover Quartet Workshop at the Curtis Institute, as well as the Professional String Quartet Seminar
with the Pacifica Quartet and Atar Arad (Cleveland Quartet) at Indiana University.
Since 2021, the Erinys Quartet has been supported by Le Dimore del Quartetto, where they are also a part of the European Union-sponsored MERITA platform. In addition to their studies at the Curtis Institute, the members of the Erinys Quartet are pursuing a diploma in chamber music at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, under the tutelage of Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartett). In 2023, the Erinys Quartet was awarded the Audience Prize Award of the City of Bad Tölz during the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition, the Esterházy Foundation Special Prize for best interpretation of a Haydn string quartet and were awarded the Bronze Medal Prize in the 2024 Fischoff Competition.
Elizabeth Stewart, violin
American violinist Elizabeth Stewart has had a varied career in North America and Europe. Since autumn of 2020, she has held the position of principal second violin in the Turku Philharmonic (Finland) and has performed with ensembles such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Helsinki Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist, she has performed with the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra. Especially enthusiastic about contemporary music, Ms. Stewart has had the opportunity to perform with NYKY Ensemble in Helsinki, as well as collaborate with composers and premiere new works. Ms. Stewart has also traveled to Havana, Cuba with the Heilerin Quartet as part of Vermont Mozart Festival “La Ruta de Mozart” in 2018.
Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Master of Music from the Sibelius Academy. Her major teachers include Päivyt Meller, Joan Kwuon, David Updegraff, and Virginia Wensel. Additional chamber music study has been with members of the Pacifica, Cleveland and Cavani String Quartets.
Joosep Reimaa, violin
Estonian violinist Joosep Reimaa began his musical studies at Tartu Heino Eller Music School with Eveli Roosaar. He graduated Tallinn Music High School (2018) from Tiiu Peäske’s and Triin Ruubel’s violin class and the Sibelius Academy (2023) from the studios of Jaakko Ilves and Prof. Réka Szilvay. In 2022, Mr. Reimaa joined the Erinys Quartet. Mr. Reimaa has gained recognition at various national and international competitions and has performed as a soloist with Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, orchestras of Tallinn Music High School, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Sibelius Academy Wind Orchestra. In 2016, 2017 and 2019 he received a scholarship to attend renowned summer academy Astona International in Switzerland. He has participated in masterclasses of Friedemann Eichhorn, Kolja Blacher, Detlef Hahn, Viktor Tretyakov, Daniel Rowland.
Mr. Reimaa is currently pursuing a diploma at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under the Dover Quartet and at Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia with Prof. Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartett).
Marija
Räisänen, viola
Finnish-Lithuanian violinist and violist Marija Räisänen has performed as soloist with Vytautas Magnus University Orchestra, Kaunas Symphony Orchestra. Her chamber music partners include Kyril Zlotnikov, Rimma Benyumova, Horácio Ferreira and Harri Mäki. In 2018, Marija took part in Royal Concertgebouw Symphony Orchestra’s “Side by Side’’ project and performed with the orchestra in Helsinki Music Center. She was also selected for an apprenticeship program with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In Spring of 2022 she was a guest player in the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ms. Räisänen completed her studies at the Sibelius Academy under Réka Szilvay and Jaakko Ilves. She is currently in residency at Curtis Institute of Music and pursuing a diploma in chamber music in Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia with Prof. Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet).
Stergios Theodoridis, cello
Greek cellist Stergios Theodoridis begun studying cello at the age of 8 in Thessaloniki. In 2011 he graduated with a diploma from the Conservatory of Northern Greece, in the class of Zoran Stepic. He continued his studies at the Sibelius Academy, where he graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in the classes of Raimo Sariola and Tuomas Ylinen respectively.
Stergios has regularly been a guest player in important Finnish orchestras, such as the Helsinki and Tampere Philharmonic orchestras. He has given cello masterclasses in Larissa, Greece, as well as chamber music masterclasses in the Sphinx Performance Academy (as part of the Dover Quartet Workshop in Curtis institute) and in the Indiana University Summer Academy in Bloomington.
Stergios is continuing his string quartet studies in the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia, in the class of Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartett), as well as in the Curtis Institute of Music, under the guidance of the Dover Quartet.
An Evening of String Sextets
with Lyrica Chamber Music
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7:30 PM
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Doori Na, violin
Tanner Menees, viola
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola
Ani Kalayjian, cello
Brannon Cho, cello
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