“Piano Quartets through Time”

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The Eos Ensemble joins us tonight for a program entitled “Piano Quartets through Time”.  The program includes Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor; with its gorgeous melodies, reflective mood, mastery of form and wild Gypsy finale,  it was the work Brahms chose to introduce himself to Viennese society in 1862.  
The Spanish composer Joaquin Turina wrote his evocative Piano Quartet in 1931 and it is filled with Andalusian folk music and exotic dance rhythms.  The program begins with the Piano Quartet in E flat of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with its ever-fresh classic grace and collegial treatment of all four instruments it is one of the earliest and best examples of the piano quartet.
As a bonus, all audience members will have a chance to enter a drawing for two free tickets to a San Francisco Ballet Performance! 
 
Program
Mozart Piano Quartet in Eb, K.493 (1785)
Turina Piano Quartet (1931)
Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (1861)

Craig Reiss, founding member of the Eos Ensemble, is a member of the San Francisco Opera and Associate Principal Second Violin of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Central Massachusetts Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, as well as the Vallejo Symphony. Mr. Reiss earned his Bachelor of Music degree while working with Rafael Druian at Boston University and in 1987 became an Associate of the Royal College of Music in London where he studied with Trevor Williams. He has participated in music festivals at Tanglewood, Spoleto, the Colorado Music Festival, and was a guest artist with the New World String Quartet at the Art Farm Festival.

The Eos Ensemble is an exciting chamber music group featuring musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Through the intimacy of chamber music, these talented musicians thrill audiences with artistry normally reserved for the grand canvas of opera. The ensemble presents concerts of wide ranging musical styles and instrumental combinations throughout

January 11 2015

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Date: Sunday, January 11, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm

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