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Musica Viva's opening concert of its 2011-2012 season features the Old City String Quartet. This group was founded in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008. The Old City String Quartet was the Gold medalist and Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Their recent recording of Mendelssohn and Debussy quartets is described as 'phenomenal and disproportionate to the age of the group.' This is the first appearance by the group with Musica Viva, but for sure it will not be the last!

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The popular Avanti Ensemble members David Ehrlich, violin, Ben Wyatt, cello, and Teresa Ehrlich, piano, are joined by acclaimed violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama to bring us an evening of "lush sounds of piano and strings." At age 17 Ms Ngwenyama was a prizewinner in the Primrose International Viola Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. She is also winner of an Avery Fisher career grant. Gramophone proclaimed Ms. NgwenyamaÕs playing as 'solidly shaped music of bold, mesmerizing character.' This concert features Mozart's uplifting Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Rachmaninov's emotional Piano Trio 'Elegiaque' No. 1 in G minor, and the first performance in Blacksburg of Joaquin Turina's sensual Piano Quartet, op. 67.

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This concert depicts the drama of passion and love through music. Ariana Wyatt, soprano; Scott Williamson, tenor; David Yang, viola, Director of Chamber Music at University of Pennsylvania; David Ehrlich and Shaw Pong Liu, violin; Ben Wyatt, cello; and, Teresa Ehrlich, piano perform a program that includes famous opera arias, love songs for voice and strings, and Janacek's String Quartet No. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata inspired by Tolstoy's novel of the same name). Enjoy an evening of music that will surely awaken the passions of everyone in the audience!

By popular demand, Viva Vivaldi returns to Musica Viva, in partnership with The Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. Join us for an afternoon celebrating the glorious music of Antonio Vivaldi. David Ehrlich and Benedict Goodfriend, violins; and, Ben Wyatt, cello, perform rarely heard concerti with the ensemble. A recently released CD recording will be available for sale at the concert. No matter what your mood when you arrive, you will leave with uplifted spirits!

Formed in Israel, the Ariel String Quartet moved to the United States in 2004, and has since rapidly gained the attention of the music world. They've been Grand Prize winners at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition; First Prize winners at the international competition "Franz Schubert And The Music Of Modernity" in Graz, Austria (2003); and, prizewinners at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2007. The American Record Guide described the quartet as "a consummate ensemble gifted with utter musicality." Don't miss the first appearance with Musica Viva by this phenomenal group of young musicians. They are sure to dazzle!

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