Chicago Harp Quartet, Quartet
Performances by Chicago Harp Quartet
| Composer | Title | Date | Action |
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| Franz Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 | 05/12/2016 |
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| Léo Delibes | Prelude and Mazurka from Coppélia | 05/12/2016 |
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| Paul Patterson | Avian Arabesques | 05/12/2016 |
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| Alfredo Rolando Ortiz | Cuban Dream after the Storm | 05/12/2016 |
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Chicago Harp Quartet, Quartet
Biography
The Chicago Harp Quartet, comprised of harpists Marguerite Lynn Williams, Kelsey Molinari, Catherine Litaker, Emily Ann Granger and founded in 2012, has quickly established itself as the leading harp ensemble in the United States. Widely regarded as a Chicago treasure, the Chicago Harp Quartet has dedicated itself to presenting innovative, charismatic and forward-thinking programs of existing classics transformed for the ensemble as well as new commissions.
2015 is a banner year for the Quartet with premiers at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, educational residencies with Play on Philly!, New York University and Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, return performances on both the LIVE from WFMT and Lyon & Healy Festival Concert series and an exciting multidisciplinary living art gallery project with Mozawa and Ho Etsu Taiko. The Quartet looks forward to premiering new works by composers Alfredo Rolando Ortiz and Nicholas Davies.
The 2013/14 season saw the release of the Quartet's highly successful debut CD, Soirées d'été, named after their first commission by Bernard Andrès and produced by four-time Grammy Award winner, Christopher Willis.
The ensemble gave a spotlight performance as well as a featured lecture at the 41st National Conference of the American Harp Society in New Orleans, established their own bi-annual Composition Contest and performed as concerto soloists with the International Chamber Ensemble.