Telluride Chamber Music: Ivalas Quartet, Sheridan Opera House, 9/21!

10 Sep Telluride Chamber Music: Ivalas Quartet, Sheridan Opera House, 9/21!

Since professional flutist (and ski instructor) Claire Beard took over the management of the Telluride Chamber Music, her brilliant remix has revived one of Telluride’s original cultural anchors, dating back to 1974.

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Claire devised a series of Chamber Music Happy Hours. Next up: Tuesday, September 24, 6 p.m.  a concert featuring Claire, Anneke Dean Travis Fisher and Steve White at Telluride Arts HQ. Program includes Bach, Faure, Brahms, Martinu and Rota in an intimate series. The perfect end to a day in the mountains!

Chamber’s off-season special, October 24, 7 p.m., The Alibi, is titled “Project Trio,” a genre-bending virtuosic group given their unique fusion of classical, jazz, hip-hop, and world-music influences. Tickets, $25.

The next Big Event features the ground-breaking Ivalas Quartet, a group that has been changing the face of classical music since its inception in 2017. Their performance takes place at Telluride’s historic Sheridan Opera House on September 21, 7 p.m. Tickets here.

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Scroll down for a preview on the Quartet in action.

Composed of violinists Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts; violist Marcus Stevenson; and cellist Pedro Sanchez, the Ivalas Quartet recently served as the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School, where they studied with the Juilliard String Quartet.

They were previously in residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder under the mentorship of the Takács Quartet.

In May of 2023,Ivalas presented their first full program at Carnegie Hall titled “First Light.”

In 2022, Ivalas won the Grand Prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition, as well as first prize at the 2019 WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition.

PROGRAM:

• Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 (1826)

Alvin Singleton: String Quartet No.3 ‘Somehow We Can’ (1994)

 – INTERMISSION –

• Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827)

Back by popular demand, this is Ivalas’s second performance in Telluride, but their first at the Sheridan Opera House.

The group were the first to perform as part of Telluride Chamber Music’s new year-round series back in 2021 and Beard & Co. are thrilled to have these rising stars back in the Box Canyon!