Pensacola State College presents the National String Quartet of Kazakhstan in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The acclaimed quartet (two violins, viola and cello) consists of young musicians who have won numerous prestigious international prizes and performed in prominent concert halls in Moscow, Madrid, Vienna, London and more.
Also known as the Gaziza Zhubanova String Quartet in honor of Gaziza Zhubanova, the first Kazakh woman composer (1927-1993), the group was founded in 1988 in the City of Almaty. Performing classical selections, the quartet demonstrates a combination of tenderness and intensity of sound, rigor and austerity of musical forms. The beauty of the concert includes the strings conveying the sounds of the oboe, horn, organ and harp.
The concert features “String Quartet in D major, Op. 50, No. 6” by Joseph Haydn; “String Quartet No. 1” by Gaziza Zhubanova; “Cycle for String Quartet” by Steinway Artist and PSC music faculty Kadisha Onalbayeva; and “String Quartet No.1” by PSC music faculty Michael Coleman.
Tickets are $11 for reserved admission; $9 for seniors 60+, non-PSC students and children; $7 for PSC faculty, staff, retirees and PSC Seniors Club; free for PSC students with current college ID. Purchase tickets online at www.pensacolastate.edu/lyceum or at the Lyceum Box Office, Building 8, Room 861, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday – Friday and one hour before a performance. For reservations and ticket information, call the Lyceum Box Office at 850-484-1847.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: PSC Presents National String Quartet of Kazakhstan in Concert Oct. 2