Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Chamber Music America/ASCAP's "Most Adventurous Programming" Award
Performance October 23, 2022
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, founded in 1982, has been the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet and is one of the world's most renowned classical music ensembles. They have traveled the world with the beloved scores by Villa-Lobos, Revueltas, Ginastera, Piazzolla and many other great Latin American masters.
The artists have said they have enjoyed an, “ almost forty-year-long career by mostly playing concert music by composers from countries South of the Rio Bravo …and of course the mutual rapport among ourselves, keep us together, full of energy and forever thinking about our next concert. All this seems like a miracle to us, and we feel incredibly lucky and grateful to have made an entire life out of our Cuarteto Latinoamericano.”
For the Cuarteto, this music "the music of our continent" is as varied as its culture, its geography, its food and history. Some of these composers undoubtedly draw from Latin America's rich popular music tradition, while others write music that sounds universal, and could have been written anywhere in the world.” They have recorded the complete works for quartet of Silvestre Revueltas, Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rodolfo Halffter and Julian Orbon together with numerous first recordings of works by Latin American composers.
The artists, Saul Bitran (violin), Aron Bitran (violin), Alvaro Bitran (cello) and Javier Montiel (viola), have been winners of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings; they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award; and three times received Chamber Music America/ASCAP's "Most Adventurous Programming" Award. And they are credited in Mexico with the emergence of a new generation of string players.
The Cuarteto Latinoamericano will provide a rich, adventurous and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.
Tickets are $25 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.
The audience is invited to participate in a question and answer program with the artists in the concert hall following the concert.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with Pacific and its Conservatory of Music. For a brochure or more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 209-956-2868 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.
Artists provided by General Arts Touring – Tom Gallant