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When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 1 PM
Venue: Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
2600 Atlantic Avenue – Fernandina Beach, FL – Directions…
Members will mentor promising young musicians from the Jacksonville area.
This master class is FREE and open to the public.
The internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet, our quartet-in-residence, conducts a free master class each season. The group has mentored ensembles from The Douglas Anderson School of the Arts (a magnet high school in Jacksonville); the Jacksonville Youth Symphony Orchestra; music students from the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University; and youngsters from The Faith Christian Academy in Fernandina Beach. These master classes, which are open to the public, draw large audiences every year.
The Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition. Named the Cleveland Quartet Award-winner and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. The Quartet’s rise from up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric” (Strings). With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker). The Dover serves as quartet-in-residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Chamber Music Northwest, Artosphere and Peoples’ Symphony in New York. The Dover also is the first-ever quartet-in-residence for the Kennedy Center.
The Dover Quartet appears by arrangement with the Curtis Institute of Music, where it serves as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence.