The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet will be coming to Grand Marais in January. They will offer free after-school workshops for K-5 students in Cook County schools on Friday, Jan. 13 and will appear in concert at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 14.
A Grammy Award-winning group is scheduled to visit Grand Marais next month.
The North Shore Music Association will sponsor free after-school workshops with the Parker Quartet for K-5 students from all Cook County schools at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts on Friday, Jan. 13. These workshops are one of many educational activities the North Shore Music Association provides our community each year.
The Parker Quartet will perform at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts the following day, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009- 2011 seasons. Also in 2009, the quartet’s second recording, of György Ligeti’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and Andante & Allegretto, won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. Serving as Quartet-in-Residence with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2008 through 2010, the Parker Quartet were the first-ever Artists-in-Residence with Minnesota Public Radio for the 2009-2010 season.
This season, they are in residence at the University of Minnesota, working with chamber music students. They are also teaching instrumental lessons at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN and partnering with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra to launch All Hearts Listen, a concert series in the Twin Cities. The Parker Quartet’s members (Daniel Chong, Karen Kim, Jessica Bodner, and Kee-Hyun Kim) hold graduate degrees in performance and chamber music from the New England Conservatory of Music and were part of the New England Conservatory’s prestigious Professional String Quartet Training Program. Their mentors include the Cleveland Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, György Kurtág, and Rainer Schmidt.
For more information or concert reservations, contact the North Shore Music Association at (218) 387-1272.
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