Sundays @ Four: New Esterhazy Quartet March 1, 2009

Crowden Music Center continues its low-cost Sundays @ Four chamber music series on Sunday, March 1! Join us as The New Esterhazy Quartet continues its three-year performance voyage featuring all 68 of the string quartets of Franz Joseph Haydn, the first complete period-instrument Haydn cycle ever performed in North America.

All-Haydn String Quartets Program: Op. 2, No 1 in A Major; Op. 54, No. 3 in E Major; Op. 9, No. 6 in A Major; Op. 64, No. 5 in D Major "The Lark."

The members of the New Esterhazy Quartet are internationally known period-instrument and chamber music specialists. As individuals, the players perform in the top echelon of early music ensembles such as Orchestra of the 18th Century, the Bach Ensemble, Artaria Quartet, Smithsonian Chamber Players, Arcadian Academy, the Gottingen Festival Orchestra, and Musica Angelica. In addition to many years of musical collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, and a long list of renowned chamber ensembles, these four Bay Area players have enjoyed decades of friendship and shared experience.

Crowden Music Center's 2008-09 Sundays @ Four chamber music series showcases the richness and variety of the Bay Area's classical music scene with a season of outstanding specialists and emerging local stars.

The nonprofit Crowden Music Center serves as a vital musical hub for the Bay Area, with over 6,000 individuals attending classes, workshops, rehearsals, concerts, and other events each year. Music education is available to the entire community through our two divisions: Crowden Center for Music in the Community, offering lessons, classes, camps, and concerts for students of all ages, and The Crowden School, a unique music day school for students in grades four through eight. For more information, visit www.crowden.org.

The Crowden Music Center is wheel-chair accessible and just two blocks from North Berkeley BART.

$12 general admission; FREE for children 18 and under. Tickets available at door only.

Official Website: http://crowden.org/Events/sundays.htm