Guildhall – MDW (Vienna) exchange: String Quartet Concert & Workshop
- 7pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free, no ticket required
- Location:
- Silk Street Music Hall
Event information
Guildhall – MDW (Vienna) annual chamber music & creativity exchange, led by professor Johannes Meissl (MDW) and David Dolan (Guildhall School)
hosted by Guildhall School's Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation
Join us for an evening concert / workshop, part of a special exchange between Guildhall School and the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Three established string quartets, the Vienna-based Motus Quartet, and the Sonas String Quartet and Quartet Concrète from London, will share with the audience their working process and its outcomes on some examples from well-known and beloved canonical string quartet works.
The event will include a workshop where the quartets will delve into works such as Beethoven's String Quartet Op 95 (Serioso) and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, among others and will conclude with an open conversation with the audience.
Rather than a formal concert, this is an invitation to join the musicians during their work in progress, experience them taking risks, applying intense heightened listening and musical telepathy as well as searching for expressing narrative.
The audience is warmly invited to participate by asking questions and become a part of the process.
Free, no ticket required
Performers
The word 'Improvisation' sounds like the complete opposite of what high quality classical music performance is about, doesn’t it?
This is far from what European art-music performance was about until the end of the 19th century, when listeners expected to be surprised and be taken into the unexpected. The performance of well-known works included improvised repeats and cadenzas, extemporised preludes before a performed composition, interludes between movements and postludes following canonical works and entire extemporised pieces. In addition, fantasias were often improvised on themes provided by the audience.
The Austrian mdw and the Guildhall School in London are collaborating to revive this tradition and its spirit. This event, guided by Professor Johannes Meissl (mdw) and Professor David Dolan (Guildhall School), demonstrates this collaboration.
Motus Quartet (MDW)
Tim de Vries violin
Karla Križ violin
Julia Turnovsky viola
Domonkos Hartmann cello
Sonas String Quartet (Guildhall School)
Yente Lottman violin
Isabelle Allan violin
Eve Quigley viola
Alice Abram cello
Quartet Concrète (Guildhall School)
Joseph Barker cello
Anna Brown violin
Leon Human violin
Dominic Stokes viola
Motus Quartet
Quartet Concrète
Sonas Quartet
Johannes Meissl © Sabine Hauswirth
David Dolan
Venue information
Silk Street Theatre, Music Hall and Lecture Recital Room are located in the main Guildhall School building on Silk Street and for Barbican produced events the venue can also be accessed from the Barbican if you exit via the doors next to Barbican Kitchen on Level G.
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Silk Street
Barbican
EC2Y 8DT
