March 20: Serafin String Quartet
Serafin String Quartet to perform recital in Gore Recital Hall
11:49 a.m., Feb. 23, 2012--The Serafin String Quartet, the University of Delaware Department of Music’s quartet-in-residence, will present a recital at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts.
The recital will feature Martinů’s Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major and Chausson’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet.
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Guest artists Barbara Govatos and Marcantonio Barone of the Delaware Chamber Music Festival will join Serafin for this concert event.
Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for UD faculty, staff and alumni, and for senior adults; and $3 for students.
Tickets will be available at the door, by cash or check only. For more information contact the Department of Music office at 302-831-2577, or visit the website.
About the Serafin String Quartet
The Serafin String Quartet has been hailed by The Strad Magazine for “playing with style and sophistication” and the American Record Guide for “combining true rhythmic precision, beautiful intonation, and beautiful articulation with an excellent sense of balance and deeply satisfying musical phrasing.”
Serafin debuted to a sell-out crowd at New York City’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2004. Since its debut, the quartet has been applauded by audiences around the nation, including sell-out crowds at repeat performances in New York City’s Weill Recital Hall and recent performances at St. John’s, Smith Square in London, Philadelphia’s Annenberg Center for the Arts and the Delaware Chamber Music Festival.
Serafin String Quartet’s 2010 debut CD, on the Centaur label, received critical acclaim and is now widely available in international release. The disc features an "American Tapestry” of works by American composers, and composers influenced by American sounds. The quartet has recently been featured on WHYY-TV, WRTI Radio and in print media including Delaware Today, the News Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Quartet-in-residence at UD, Serafin String Quartet regularly reaches young musicians through a variety of performances and instructional activities on the University campus, and beyond. The quartet frequently visits communities, colleges and universities around the United States to present concerts, master classes and lecture-recitals.
About Barbara Govatos
Barbara Govatos holds the Wilson H. and Barbara B. Taylor chair of the first violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A member since 1982, in 1990, she became the music director of the Delaware Chamber Music Festival, which celebrated its 25th season in June, 2010.
Govatos has collaborated as a soloist and chamber musician with Radu Lupu, Riccardo Muti, Chistopher Parkening, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Emerson Quartet, Dallas Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Juilliard Orchestra and the Delaware Symphony.
She has performed at the Marlboro, Salzburg, Maggio Musicale, Saratoga, Marblehead and Music at Gretna Festivals and has given concerts and master classes at UCLA, Mt. Holyoke College, UD, Bucknell University and Westminster Conservatory.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, her major influences were Jascha Brodsky, Ivan Galamian, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold and members of the Budapest and Juilliard Quartets.
Govatos has won many competitions, scholarships and honors throughout her career, including the G.B. Dealey International Competition in Dallas, National Arts Club Award in New York, the Charles Petschek Scholarship, and the Austrian American Society’s scholarship for study at Salzburg’s Mozarteum.
She has been a guest artist with Orchestra 2001, Lenape Chamber Ensemble, Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Chamber Music series and is a member of the Amerita Chamber Players and violinist and artistic director of the Hildegard Chamber Players. Bringing performances to life for young audiences is a very important part of her focus, and she also teaches privately.
Her instrument is a violin made by the brothers Hieronymus and Antonius Amati in Cremona, in 1619.
About Marcantonio Barone
Pianist Marcantonio Barone made his debut at age 10 at a Philadelphia Orchestra children's concert. His teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff, Susan Starr, Leon Fleisher and Leonard Shure.
He has given solo recitals in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Moscow and St. Petersburg. In the 1980s and 1990s he often performed as soloist with major orchestras in the United States, England, Russia, Venezuela and China.
He performs annually at the Delaware Chamber Music Festival, and as a member of the Craftsbury Chamber Players, the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, 1807 and Friends, and Orchestra 2001.
Barone is head of the piano department and assistant director of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1980. He also teaches piano, keyboard musicianship, and chamber music at Swarthmore College. He is a Steinway Artist, and his recordings are available on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, and Centaur labels.