Harlem Quartet at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Student tickets available for $15, please call the Box Office for details, 518-273-0038.

Their program this evening diverts from a classical program and will include an eclectic mix of jazz with works by Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Abelardito Valdes, Wynton Marsalis and more!

The Harlem Quartet is Ilmar Gavilan, violin, Melissa White, violin, Jaime Amador, viola, and Felix Umansky, cello. They have been praised for their “panache” by The New York Times, and have a core mission to advance diversity in classical music by engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers....

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Student tickets available for $15, please call the Box Office for details, 518-273-0038.

Their program this evening diverts from a classical program and will include an eclectic mix of jazz with works by Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Abelardito Valdes, Wynton Marsalis and more!

The Harlem Quartet is Ilmar Gavilan, violin, Melissa White, violin, Jaime Amador, viola, and Felix Umansky, cello. They have been praised for their “panache” by The New York Times, and have a core mission to advance diversity in classical music by 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 in South Africa, where under the auspices of the U.S. State Department they spent two weeks on tour performing concerts and participating in outreach activities. The Quartet completed the Professional String Quartet Residency Program at New England Conservatory in 2013, and participated in NEC’s string quartet exchange program in Paris, working extensively with violinist Günter Pichler.

In addition to performing on chamber music series around the world, Harlem Quartet has collaborated with such distinguished performers as Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, Carter Brey, Paul Katz, Fred Sherry, Anthony McGill, Paquito D’Rivera, and Misha Dichter (with whom the quartet made their Kennedy Center debut in February 2013). Harlem Quartet has also worked closely with jazz legends Chick Corea and Gary Burton, with whom the quartet recorded the album titled “Hot House.” Following a concert tour of twenty-five major cities, the Harlem Quartet’s recording with Corea and Burton entitled “Mozart Goes Dancing” won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition in February 2013.

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