Howard Center Presents...Telegraph Quartet
String ensemble to perform this month
Telegraph Quartet will perform at the Howard Performing Arts Center on the campus of Andrews University on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, at 4 p.m. The group is the 2014 Grand Prize and Gold Medal winner of the 41st Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Their concert repertoire includes one of Joseph Haydn’s most ambitious chamber string quartet pieces, the first string quartet by American Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Leon Kirshner, and a string quartet dedicated to the Crown Prince of Sweden by Felix Mendelsson.
The quartet, comprised of Eric Chin (violin), Joseph Maile (violin), Pei-Ling Lin (viola) and Jeremiah Shaw (cello), are from San Francisco, California. Their Fischoff Competition winner’s tour brings them across America’s Midwest region as well as the Emilia Romagna region of Italy in the summer of 2015.
Founded in 1987, the Fischoff Grand Prize is an esteemed award given at the largest chamber music competition in the world.
Tickets are required. They are $5, or free for Andrews University faculty, staff and students. Tickets can be obtained online at Howard.andrews.edu or at the box office by calling 888-467-6442.
The Howard Performing Arts Center is a premier 850-seat concert hall on the campus of Andrews University. Founded in 1874, Andrews University is the flagship institution of higher education for the Seventh-day Adventist Church and offers more than 200 areas of study including advanced degrees. Its main campus is in Berrien Springs, Michigan, but the University also provides instruction at colleges and universities in over 30 countries around the world.
