Maiastra Chamber Concert

Sunday 2 April 7.30pm

Tickets: Free, with a retiring collection

Tickets must be reserved online or via The Menuhin Hall Box Office

Italian Serenade for String Quartet

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Beethoven String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127

Arisa Fujita Violin Kryštof Kohout Violin Clem Pickering Viola Pere Puertas Cello

Maiastra performs three celebrated string quartets, directed by multi-award-winning violinist and trustee of The Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust, Arisa Fujita. The first piece is Wolf’s lilting one-movement Italian Serenade for String Quartet, followed by the ominous String Quartet No. 8 by Shostakovich. The final item is Beethoven’s String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127. The first of his ‘late period’ quartets, the composition echoes this anxious and tumultuous time of Beethoven’s life, with dramatic and sudden polarity of characters.

The Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust, under the name Maiastra, provides courses for emerging young professionals who are hoping to make chamber music a major part of their career.

Running time: 90 minutes plus interval