Fry Street Quartet In Residence at The Hartt School This Summer

The Fry Street Quartet will be in residence at The Hartt School Community Division July 29 through August 7, working with advanced teenaged string players in the David Einfeldt Chamber Music Seminar. The week-long seminar features a performance by the Quartet on Tuesday, August 2, at 6:00 PM in Lincoln Theater. This concert is free and open to the public. Please contact the Hartt Community Division office at 860.768.4451 or visit the performance and events calendar at www.hartford.edu/hartt for details.

The Fry Street Quartet includes William Fedkenheuer, violin; Rebecca McFaul, violin; Bradley Ottesen, viola; and Anne Francis, cello. Their August 3 program includes Haydn's String Quartet in D Major, Op. 17, no. 6, Shostakovich's String Quartet no. 7, and Dvorak's String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, the "American."

About the Fry Street Quartet
Hailed as "a triumph of ensemble playing" (New York Times), Fry Street Quartet has perfected a "blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity" (Strad). Since securing the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2000, Fry Street Quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to Sarajevo and Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with "profound understanding, ...depth of expression, and stunning technical astuteness" (Deseret Morning News). For more information about the Fry Street Quartet visit www.frystreetquartet.com.

The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford is a comprehensive community arts school providing instruction in music and dance for individuals of all ages and experience levels. It is a division of The Hartt School, one of the seven colleges of the University of Hartford. The Community Division is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Pre-College Art Schools, is an active member of National Guild of Community Arts Education, and is viewed as a national model for community schools based on university campuses. It is one of the largest and most evolved programs of its kind in the country. For more information on The Hartt School Community Division, visit www.hcd.hartford.edu.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. Founded in 1920, Hartt has been an integral part of the University of Hartford since its charter merged the then Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Art School, and Hillyer College to create the University in 1957. 2010 markEd Hartt's 90th year of providing world class performing arts education to students in Greater-Hartford and around the world. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information about The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

Photo Credit: Donna Barry

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