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The Spokane String Quartet opens its 2023-24 season at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, with guest pianist Evren Ozel joining the ensemble for works by Brahms and Schumann.

All seats are general admission, $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and free for persons under 18 and students with ID. Click here to buy tickets.

American pianist Evren Ozel has established himself as a musician of “refined restraint” (Third Coast Review), combining fluent virtuosity with probing, thoughtful interpretations. Having performed extensively in the United States and abroad, Evren is the recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and is currently represented by Concert Artists Guild as an Ambassador Prize Winner of their 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition.

Since his debut at age 11 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Evren has gone on to be a featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony and the Boston Pops Orchestra  In the 2023-24 season, he will record Mozart Concertos with the Radio Symphonieorchester Wien and conductor Howard Griffiths for the Next Generation Mozart Soloists project based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Program:

• Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25
• Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44
• Additional solo pieces to be announced

Season tickets are now on sale for the Spokane String Quartet’s 2023-24 season, which opens Sept. 24 at the Fox Theater with brilliant young pianist Evren Ozel. Purchasing season tickets gives you five concerts for the price of four, which is a savings of $25 for adults and $20 for seniors.

The Quartet’s season brochure should be arriving in your mail the week of July 17 if you’re on the SSQ mailing list. Or you can use your credit card to make a secure purchase now at https://spokanestringquartet.square.site/. All seats are general admission. Season tickets are $100 for adults and $80 for seniors. Youth under 18 and students with ID are free and can pick up their comp ticket at the box office as they enter the theater.

Single-concert tickets are also on sale for $25 for adults and $20 for seniors. They may be purchased online by following the links at https://www.spokanestringquartet.org/concerts/. Service charges may apply.

In addition to the season-opening concert at the Fox, the schedule includes four concerts at the Bing Crosby Theater: Nov. 19, Jan. 28, March 24 and May 19. All concerts are at 3 p.m. Sundays. For a full season schedule visit https://www.spokanestringquartet.org/concerts/.

Save the dates! The Spokane String Quartet has announced its concert schedule for the 2023-24 season. Concerts will be Sept. 24 at the Fox Theater and Nov. 19, Jan. 28, March 24 and May 19 at the Bing Crosby Theater. Look for the season brochure in the mail this summer or check back here for season ticket details.

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.