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Haydn, Aaron Jay Kernis and Debussy
Jasper String Quartet
Date
Fri 16 Jun 2017, 7.00pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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  • Jasper String Quartet

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    1. Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

    Overview

    Winners of the Cleveland Quartet Award, the JasperString Quartet marks its Wigmore Hall debut with theUK première of ‘River’ by Aaron Jay Kernis, speciallywritten for the group in 2015.

    The programmealso includes Debussy’s pioneering String Quartetin G minor, a work of the early 1890s influencedby recent developments in Impressionist art andSymbolist literature.

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