The Forum has announced it is taking preventive actions to assure that it is not possibly exposing its audience to the Coronavirus (Covid-19); therefore, it has decided to postpone the performance of The Vega Quartet, which is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, to a later date.
The home base of the Vega Quartet, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has multiple confirmed cases and closed down late last night.
The Forum will present The Vega Quartet at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 14, at Prior-Jollek Hall, Antilles School Campus. The quartet consists of Elizabeth Fayette on violin, Jessica Shuang Wu on violin, Yinzi Kong on viola and Guang Wang on cello.
The Forum, in collaboration with First Bank V.I., is thrilled to present this wonderful and intriguing quartet. The Vega String Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University, is cultivating a new generation of chamber music lovers through dynamic performances and innovative community engagement.
“The music, when it began, simply took over and created a space of its own. Nor did the quartet impose an interpretation on the music; rather, the musicians played with a deceptive simplicity and fluidity that made difficult passages seem childlike in their straightforwardness.” — The New York Times
The Vega Quartet has won numerous international awards including the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition, as well as top prizes from the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, the Carmel Chamber Music Competition and the National Society of Arts and Letters String Quartet Competition.
They concertize both nationally and internationally, most recently in Baltimore, Chicago, Nashville, Sacramento, Berlin, San Miguel and the Brahmssaal in Vienna’s Musikverein.
The Vega Quartet’s major performing projects at Emory have included performing the complete cycle of Beethoven quartets, as well as pairing Bach’s complete works for solo violin, viola and cello with the six Bartók quartets. They have also developed a series of “Jazz Meets Classics” programs, bringing the two genres together. Recent highlights include the quartet’s debut at Amsterdam’s famed Concertgebouw, a multicity tour of Denmark, with performances at venues such as the Royal Danish Conservatory, and appearances at El Paso Pro Musica and the Sitka Music Festival.
The courtyard will be open from 7 p.m. with a live performance by the Saxophone Quartet OPUS 4. Concertgoers may enjoy the small meals and desserts by Amalia Café.
Concert tickets: General admission $25; teachers $10; students $5; and children under 10 years old are free (but must obtain a ticket to secure a seat).
Tickets are on sale online at www.instantseats.com.
Ticket sale locations include: Frenchtown Deli, The Medicine Shoppe, Antilles Administrative Building and Chelsea’s Drugstore.
The event is made possible by First Bank V.I.
