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The Spokane String Quartet concludes its “All in the Family” season Sunday, May 7, with a guest appearance by Leonard Byrne, tuba player and husband of SSQ cellist Helen Byrne.

The 3 p.m. concert at the Bing Crosby Theater features “Doors” for String Quartet and Tuba by New Mexico State University educator Dr. Lon W. Chaffin. “Doors” is a four-movement composition inspired by photographs taken by Albuquerque photographer Jim Gale.

Byrne has played the tuba for the Spokane Symphony since 1975. He earned an advanced degree in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho and worked as a design engineer for several technology companies in Liberty Lake. He retired in 2001 from his “day job” to devote more time to music.

Rounding out the program are String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 12, by Felix Mendelssohn and String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 74, “Harp,” by Ludwig van Beethoven.

All seats are general admission and are available from TicketsWest and at the door an hour before the concert. Click here to buy tickets online. Tickets are $25 for adults and $20 for seniors. Persons under 18 and students with ID are admitted free. For this concert, wear your 2023 Bloomsday finisher T-shirt and get in free.

Something old and something new highlight the Spokane String Quartet’s concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 19, at The Bing Crosby Theater.

The old Is music by Max Bruch (1838-1920), a German composer during the Romantic era. The SSQ will present his String Quartet No. 1, composed when he was 21 years old. The new is music by living composers Caroline Shaw and Philip Glass. The quartet will present Shaw’s “Blueprint” and String Quartet No. 5 by 20th century minimalist icon Glass.

All seats are general admission and are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and free for under 18 and students with ID. Tickets are available at the door or from TicketsWest through this link.

Soprano Dawn Wolski launches the “All in the Family” portion of the Spokane String Quartet season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, at the Bing Crosby Theater.

Wolski, wife of SSQ first violinist Mateusz Wolski, will perform “…oder soll es Tod bedeuten?” (English translation: “…or should it mean death?”), which is eight lieder and one fragment by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy arranged by Aribert Reimann. Dawn has performed around the world and recently left the Inland Northwest Opera after five years as its director. Her glowing reviews included for the Brahms Requiem in Stamford, Connecticut, in which she “delivered lines…with an elegance that produced chills” and Carmina Burana with the New York City Collegiate Chorale where she was “ravishing, all the way up to a crystal clear high D.”

Also on the program is “Carrot Revolution” by 21st century composer Gabriella Smith and String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 29, D. 804 “Rosamunde” by Franz Schubert.

All seats are general admission. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and free for people under 18 and students with ID. Tickets are available at the door or through TicketsWest.

Individual concert tickets are now on sale for 2022-23 on our concerts page, www.spokanestringquartet.org/concerts. All seats are general admission and cost $25 for adults and $20 for seniors. Students with ID are admitted free.

Season tickets are available up until the Oct. 19 concert at our secure e-commerce location, spokanestringquartet.square.site.

Season tickets are on sale for the Spokane String Quartet’s 2022-23 season. The season brochure will be mailed the week of Aug. 1. Season tickets, which give you five concerts for the price of four, will be $100 for adults and $80 for seniors. Students with ID will be admitted free this season. All seats are general admission.

Order tickets by mailing in the form that is part of the season brochure, or visit our secure online site at https://spokanestringquartet.square.site/.

Season tickets will be mailed beginning in September. Tickets for individual concerts will be on sale beginning in September at TicketsWest outlets for $25 adults and $20 for seniors. Students will be admitted free by showing their ID at the Bing Crosby Theater when they arrive at the concert. The box opens at 2 p.m. and the concerts begin at 3 p.m.

The Spokane String Quartet launches its 2022-23 season Oct. 16 at the Bing Crosby Theater. Season brochures will be in the mail by the end of July.

All five concerts this season will be at the Bing Crosby Theater. The theme for the season is “All in the Family,” and guest artists will include Quartet spouses Dawn Wolski (soprano), Chip Phillips (clarinet) and Leonard Byrne (tuba). Click here for the season schedule.

The Spokane String Quartet closes its 2021-22 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, with a concert featuring Spokane Symphony violist James Marshall.

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Marshall is guest performer on Brahms’ Viola Quintet No. 2 in G Major. Also on the program are String Quartet in E-flat Major by Joseph Haydn and String Quartet No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and $12 for students. All seats are general admission. Tickets are available via TicketsWest and at the door the day of the concert.

The Spokane String Quartet looks to see its first lark of spring at its next concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at The Bing Crosby Theater.

The concert features:

• Jennifer Higdon: An Exaltation of Larks
• Joseph Haydn:  String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64 No. 5,  “The Lark”
• Bedrich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, “From My Life”

Tickets are $20 for Adults, $16 for Seniors and $12 for Students. Click here to buy tickets online.

The Spokane String Quartet is observing Black History Month at its Sunday, Feb. 20, concert with music by Black composers and a guest appearance by bass-baritone Derrick Parker. The concert begins at 3 p.m. at the Bing Crosby Theater.

Parker has performed with opera companies and orchestras across the country. He is no stranger to Spokane audiences, where he now makes his home. He has performed in several local opera productions and soloed with the Spokane Symphony. He will sing Samuel Barber’s arrangement of the Matthew Arnold poem “Dover Beach.”

Also on the program are English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Five Fantasy Pieces for String Quartet”; String Quartet No. 1 by George Walker, the first person of color to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music; and the “Rosa Parks Quartet” by contemporary Haitian-American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, who goes by his initials, DBR. Roumain has collaborated with artists ranging from Philip Glass to Lady Gaga.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $16 for seniors and $10 for students. All seats are general admission and are available at TicketsWest or at the door before the concert. Click here to buy tickets. Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test is required for entry into the theater.