Les Amis Concert: New Orford String Quartet

Les AMIS Concert - Sunday, March 9, 2025

Performance at TRINITY UNITED CHURCH at 3:00 pm

Tickets $35.00 plus service fee .Victoria Hall box office 905-372-2210 .and at the door half an hour before the concert. (Cash only) Live performance by: New Orford String Quartet

Four musicians with equally stellar pedigrees formed the New Orford String Quartet with the goal of developing a new model for a touring string quartet. Their concept - to bring four elite orchestral leaders and soloists together on a regular basis over many years to perform chamber music at the highest level - has resulted in a quartet that maintains a remarkably fresh perspective while bringing a palpable sense of joy to each performance. The Toronto Star has described this outcome as "nothing short of electrifying."

The New Orford String Quartet has seen astonishing success, giving annual concerts for national CBC broadcast and receiving unanimous critical acclaim, including two Opus Awards for Concert of the Year, and a 2017 JUNO Award for Best Classical Album. Recent seasons have featured return engagements in Chicago, Montreal and Toronto, as well as their New York City debut on Lincoln Center's Great Performers series.

Jonathan Crow - Violin Jonathan Crow has been Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2011.

Andrew Wan - Violin Andrew Wan was named concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in 2008.

Sharon Wei - Viola Sharon was on faculty at Yale and Stanford University and is currently Associate Professor of viola at Western University.

Brian Manker - Cello Principal Cellist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) since 1999,

Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: (1756-1791)String Quartet No. 15, K.421 in D minor Carmen Braden (Yellowknife) Vincent Ho (Calgary) Cecilia Livingston (Toronto)(TBA) New commissioned 5-minute works by Canadian composers Franz Schubert: (1797-1828)String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810, known as Death and the Maiden quartet.