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ST. PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET AND PETER TAKACS PERFORM IN FACULTY RECITAL WITH LIVE BROADCAST ON WCLV, 104.9 FM
OCTOBER 8, 2001-- On Saturday, October 13, 2001, at 8:00 P.M., the Oberlin Conservatory of Music will present the St. Petersburg String Quartet and pianist Peter Takacs in a faculty recital at Finney Chapel. This concert will be broadcast live on WCLV, 104.9 FM, Cleveland's classical music radio station. This marks the first time in the 39-year history of WCLV-FM that a chamber music concert will be broadcast live from Oberlin.
The program will include Mozart's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, KV 493, Shostakovich's String Quartet No.14, and the Schumann's Piano Quartet, Op. 47. The concert takes place in Finney Chapel, located at the corner of Professor and Lorain Streets in Oberlin. This concert is free and open to the public.
The St. Petersburg Quartet has been the quartet-in-residence at Oberlin Conservatory since 1997. They have served as successful ambassadors for Oberlin on their national and international concert tours. In July 2001, the quartet gave concerts in the Netherlands and England, including their fourth return to Wigmore Hall in London. The quartet's recent and current recording projects include the complete Shostakovich quartets for Hyperion and a newly released CD of the Borodin quartets for the Dorian label.
Peter Takacs, Professor of Pianoforte at Oberlin Conservatory, has been hailed by critics for his "complete masteryÞof the pianist's art". As a recipient of a Research Status grant from Oberlin College, he is currently recording the complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College, founded in 1865, is the nation's oldest continuously operating conservatory, and the only major music school in the country linked with a preeminent college of arts and sciences. The Conservatory offers majors in performance, composition, music education, music theory, electronic and computer music, jazz studies, music history, and a double major in piano performance and vocal accompanying. There are more than 400 public concerts on campus each year--most of them free.
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