A BHCA Educational Engagement Program Featuring the Dover Quartet on February 17
Dover Quartet - photo credit Roy Cox
ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) is proud to host the Blue Hill Concert Association’s (BHCA) educational engagement program on Monday, February 17 at 10:00am. The program will feature the Dover Quartet - Joel Link, violin; Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; and Camden Shaw, cello. All ages are welcome and encouraged to experience this unique community program. Admission is free.
Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine and “the next Guarneri Quartet” by the Chicago Tribune, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its honors include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and Quartet in Residence at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.
The Dover Quartet’s 2024-25 season includes premiere performances throughout North America of newly commissioned works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a leading composer of American Indian classical music; collaborative performances with preeminent artists that include pianists Michelle Cann, Marc-André Hamelin, and Haochen Zhang; and tours to Europe and Asia. Recent collaborators of the sought-after ensemble include Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Ray Chen, Anthony McGill, Edgar Meyer, the Pavel Haas Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and Davóne Tines. The quartet has also recently premiered works by Mason Bates, Steven Mackey, Marc Neikrug, and Chris Rogerson.
The Dover Quartet’s GRAMMY-nominated recordings include its highly acclaimed three-volume recording, Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Cedille Records), which was hailed as “meticulously balanced, technically clean-as-a-whistle and intonationally immaculate” (The Strad), and The Schumann Quartets (Azica Records).
Each year, the Blue Hill Concert Association provides four educational engagement programs in conjunction with their concerts. Generally, these programs take place in the Blue Hill Peninsula schools, though at times the chamber groups will provide open rehearsals, workshops, or master classes in a community setting. Visit bluehillconcertassociation.org/educational-outreach/ to learn more about this special program.
The program will be held on Monday, February 17 at 10:00am in the Moore Community Center Atrium at 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. Admission is free to the public. For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org.