: NOONTIME CONCERTS, which provides FREE live musical performances at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral (660 California St., San Francisco) on Tuesdays at lunchtime (12:30 pm) presents BEO String Quartet – San Francisco Debut
PROGRAM:
- Missy Mazzoli: Enthusiasm Strategies
- Marc Mellits: Waniyetu
- Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No.1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1
The Beo String Quartet is one of the top new ensembles performing today… Their performance was stellar and one of the best I have received of my music. Their virtuosic playing displays a wonderful balance of rhythmic vitality and crystal-clear articulation paired with a highly sensitive sense of legato, nuance, and phrasing.
— Andrew List, Berklee College of Music
The eclectic and highly polished Beo String Quartet has created a niche for itself as a daring, genre-defying ensemble. Rigorously trained in the classical tradition, violinists Jason Neukom and Andrew Giordano, violist Sean Neukom, and cellist Ryan Ash also know their way around contemporary expression, including the use of electronics, live sound processing, and spatial audio manipulation. Their performances of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, or Shostakovich have been compared to those of the best among 21st-century international string quartets.
The name “Beo” derives from Latin, meaning “to make happy.”