Artists Series
Avalon String Quartet
Blaise Magnière, violin | Marie Wang, violin
Anthony Devroye, viola | Cheng-Hou Lee, cello
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts | 7:30 P.M.
"A group of coltish young musicians:
eager, full of vim, full of ideas,
following
one another with enthusiasm."
- The New York Times
Since it was founded in 1995, the Avalon String Quartet has won many notable competitions and secured coveted
residencies — most recently a position at Northern Illinois University formerly occupied by the distinguished Vermeer Quartet. “The sound they make is big,
strongly projected, with inner parts that speak, or rather sing,” wrote The New York Times.
Avalon’s performance will include a recently premiered composition by UW-Eau Claire composer Ethan
Wickman. “The piece will be a conceptual one, inspired in part by the Hindu greeting Namaste, which
roughly means the light (or divine) within me salutes the light within you,” Wickman says. “I started
thinking about a piece in which the color of one instrument anticipates and salutes the color of the next.”
More information: www.avalonquartet.com
Artists Series tickets are $17 for the public, $15 for those 62 and older and
UW-System or
Chippewa Valley Technical College faculty and staff, and $7 for those 17 and younger and
UW-System
or CVTC students. Tickets for students are half-price, $3.50, up until the day of
the
event. On the day of the event, students will be required to pay the full student-ticket price.
Tickets are available at the Service Center in the east lobby of Davies Center and will be
sold at the door. Patrons may charge tickets to MasterCard or Visa when they order by
phone. Call 715-836-3727 or, outside the immediate Eau Claire area, call toll-free
800-949-UWEC. A $3 handling fee will be added to all telephone charge orders.
