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February 15, 2012 MEDIA CONTACT: Candace Brasseur USCB Public Information Director 843-208-8030 brasse@uscb.edu

Internationally acclaimed Brooklyn Rider Quartet to perform at USCB Festival Series February 19 Beaufort, SC- University of South Carolina Beaufort welcomes the internationally acclaimed Brooklyn Rider Quartet for their first performance in Beaufort on Feb 19. The quartet will join artistic director and cellist Edward Arron in performing music by Purcell, Boccherini, Beethoven, and Sollima, to name a few.

The USCB Center for the Arts on 801 Carteret Street in Beaufort will open at 4pm, and the quartet will start performing at 5pm. Tickets start at $40 and can be purchased at the door the day of the event, or in advance by calling 843-208-8246. For more information, please see www.uscb.edu/festivalseries.

About the Brooklyn Rider Quartet The Brooklyn Rider Quartet is comprised of Johnny Gandelsman-violin, Colin Jacobsenviolin, Nicholas Cords-viola, and Eric Jacobsen-cello. They combine a wildly eclectic repertoire with a gripping performance style that is attracting legions of fans and drawing critical acclaim from classical, world and rock critics. NPR credits Brooklyn Rider with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble." The musicians play in concert halls and clubs, in venues as varied as Joe's Pub in New York City, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Todai-ji Temple in Japan, the Library of Congress and the South By Southwest Festival. Through creative programming and global collaborations, Brooklyn Rider illuminates music for its audiences in ways that are “stunningly imaginative” (Lucid Culture).

About USCB Located in the heart of the Carolina Sea Islands, the University of South Carolina Beaufort (USCB) is a senior institution of the University of South Carolina system serving the southeast coast of Georgia and South Carolina. USCB has been the fastest growing baccalaureate institution in the USC system since becoming a four year university in 2002.The University has two campuses which serve a diverse student body of more than 1,875 students. The Historic Beaufort campus, located on Beaufort’s downtown waterfront, houses an innovative baccalaureate studio arts program in close proximity to Beaufort’s many art galleries. The Hilton Head Gateway campus in Bluffton,

S.C., offers cutting-edge Computational Science and Nursing laboratories and is the home to Sand Shark athletics. USCB offers students an exceptional place to learn and live in an environment focused on growth, preservation and opportunity. For more information about the University of South Carolina Beaufort, please visit www.uscb.edu online or call the university’s Office of Public Information at 843-208-8030.

Candace Brasseur Public Information Director University of South Carolina Beaufort

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