The Harlem String Quartet

Feb 3rd, 2014 @ 7:30 pm

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The Harlem String Quartet
February 3, 2014
7:30 pm
Fowler Center Riceland Hall

With generous funding support from the A-State Diversity Program, the A-State Department of Music, and the College of Fine Arts

"The overall feel was of understated elegance and the true beauty of the evening, excellent music aside, was that after five minutes of playing the audience had forgotten race and was enthralled by some superb young artists. The performances were as good as you would hear in any hall in America." — Glen Creason, Los Cerritos Community News

The HARLEM QUARTET, praised for its "panache" by The New York Times, is "bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent," says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The quartet’s mission is to advance diversity in classical music, engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. Since its public debut in 2006 at Carnegie Hall, the New York-based ensemble has performed throughout the U.S. as well as in France, the U.K., Belgium, Panama, Canada, and recently in South Africa. They have collaborated with such distinguished performers as Itzhak Perlman, Carter Brey, Paquito D’Rivera, Misha Dichte, and jazz legends Chick Corea and Gary Burton.