Afiara String Quartet (Mendelssohn Quartet, Op. 44)
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20 Mar 2010
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The Afiara String Quartet perform the second movement of Mendelssohn's Op. 44 quartet.
Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the Afiara String Quartet has been praised as a terrifically unified, versatile, and moving ensemble with startling intensity and a powerful, keen-edged collective sound (San Francisco Classical Voice). This all-Canadian group has been named The Juilliard Schools new graduate resident string quartet beginning in 2009-10, including studies with and assistant duties to The Juilliard String Quartet and a Lincoln Center recital in May 2010. Complimented for its energy, style and pizzazz by David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, the Afiara appeared at Carnegie Hall on the Kronos: Signature Works series and Chamber Music Americas National Conference tribute to the Kronos.
In addition to its win at the 2008 CAG Competition, the Quartet claimed a top prize at the prestigious Munich ARD International Music Competition in the same yea