FARMINGTON — The Larchmere String Quartet will play a concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 30, at the Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine Farmington. 

They will perform works by Haydn, Brahms and the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. Admission is $15; youth 18 and under and students with ID are free.

The popular young musicians have Maine connections. In 2012 quartet was in residence at Bates College and the University of Southern Maine, and charter violist Rose Wolman is a Lewiston native.

Founded at Indiana University in 2011, the quartet has achieved in three years significant international recognition as a dynamic and charismatic group. The quartet is currently faculty in residence at the University of Evansville in Indiana, and its members — Jessica Tong and Alicia Choi, violins; Rose Wollman, viola, and Kirsten Jermé, cello — have performed at Washington’s Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and in Leipzig, London and Tokyo.

The quartet also has appeared at the prestigious Banff Chamber Music Festival in Canada, and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and has its first CD in the works with Naxos.

Trained at major music conservatories—New England, Julliard, Curtis Institute, Eastman and Indiana University — they musicians have been active both as a group and individually as performers and educators, and as passionate advocates for chamber music, both classical and contemporary. Their performances have been praised both for their technical musicianship and their audience appeal.


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