Acacia Quartet Presents 4 + VIOLA! (with guest Emile Cantor)
In nearly eight years Acacia Quartet has won great respect for their versatile and inventive programs which couple established repertoire with the unorthodox. Acacia is passionate about supporting Australian composers, working with young musicians and sharing their love of music with audiences of all ages. Their performances feature regularly on ABC Classic FM, Fine Music 102.5 and Qantas In-flight Entertainment. Acacia’s most recent recording ‘I Was Flying’ with ARIA award-winning pianist and composer Sally Whitwell for ABC Classics reached #2 on the Classical iTunes Top 100 Chart and became an ARIA finalist in 2015. To find out more about Acacia Quartet and their musicians click here.
International viola soloist Emile Cantor returns to Australia to join Acacia Quartet for a program of viola quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nick Wales and Antonin Dvorak.
The program will feature Mozart's exquisite String Quintet in G minor, K516, Boomi's Ray by Australian composer Nick Wales, best known for his collaborations, notably with Sarah Blasko and the Sydney Dance Company and Dvorák's joyful String Quintet Op. 97, which he wrote during his summer vacation in Spillville, Iowa in 1893, just after his famous American quartet. To buy full price tickets follow this link.
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Absolutely amazing. Acacia Quartet never ceases to amaze! Highly recommended
We really enjoyed this concert. The Acacia Quartet and friends are highly skilled and play exquisitely. Their repertoire is wide and varied. They began with Mozart and ended with Dvorak but our favourite piece was Boomi's Ray written by a local composer Nick Wales who was in the audience to listen to his music being played magnificently. The Independent Theatre in North Sydney is a great place to see live performances, it is quite small and intimate. We look forward to their next concert here which is on September 2 at 3pm.