Gesualdo Quartet at DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame

There is limited on-stage salon style seating for this performance. There is no late seating and children under the age 5 are not admitted. Last season's “Words with Friends” pre-recital talks engagingly brought chamber music and its composers into contemporary life, ticket holders should arrive at 1 p.m. for casual conversation about the music of friends. The speaker will be announced at a later date.

The Gesualdo Quartet (the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame, founded by faculty member Tricia Park, Associate Professor of the Practice, Violin) will present this concert as a ‘work-in-progress’ look at inspiration and the art of creative "riffing" on older established works. The Quartet will be joined by actors Peter Holland (McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies andAssociate Dean for the Arts at the University of Notre Dame), guest artist,actor Saffron Henke (Assistant Professor of Theatre, Miami University of Ohio) and pianist John Blacklow (Associate Professor of Piano and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame).

The Gesualdo String Quartet is the newly formed Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame where its duties combine performance with teaching and outreach activities. The Gesualdo Quartet plays the full range of chamber music with a particular interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and the commissioning of new works, developing them closely with composers, actors, singers, theatre directors and writers.

The Gesualdo String Quartet members - Tricia Park and Miki-Sophia Cloud, violins, Molly Carr, viola and Andrew Janss, cello - have come together from the top rank of young musicians who are actively engaged in major performing careers. They have been featured in such world-renowned international venues as Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, Orchard Hall in Tokyo, The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. They have also participated in prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, LaJolla Summerfest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Music from Angelfire. Noteworthy accomplishments include an Avery Fisher Career grant; a Grammy Award nomination; top prizes at international competitions; and artist roster appointments at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Members are graduates of the Juilliard School, Harvard College, New England Conservatory, and the Manhattan and the Yale Schools of Music