Market Square Concerts presents Linden String Quartet and Christopher Grymes

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On Saturday, February 16 at 8 pm at the Temple Ohev Sholom the Linden String Quartet and clarinetist Christopher Grymes will perform music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Kelly-Marie Murphy and John Corigliano.

Tickets are $30, $25 for seniors and $5 for college students. Tickets are free for school students and $5 for the accompanying parent or sibling.  For tickets call 717 214-ARTS; information is available at 717 221-9599. Remaining tickets will be available at the door.

Described as “…polished, radiant and incisive…” by The Strad, the Linden String Quartet is a winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition.  Founded in spring 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Quartet has enjoyed remarkable success in four short years, also winning the Gold Medal and Grand Prize of the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Coleman-Barstow Prize at the 2009 Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition, First Prize at the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition, and most recently, the ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani International String Quartet Competition.

The Linden Quartet will perform Mozart’s magical Clarinet Quintet together with clarinetist Christopher Grymes, familiar to Harrisburg audience from his appearances with Concertante and MSC’s Summermusic 2012. The other works on the program include Romantic string quartet op.13 by Felix Mendelssohn, “Dark Energy” by a contemporary Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy as well as two short works by John Corigliano, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award (“Oscar”). He is particularly well-known for his music to the film “The Red Violin.”

The concert is sponsored by Lois Lehrman Grass. The season sponsor is Capital BlueCross. A resident company of Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Market Square Concerts also receives support from the Cultural Enrichment Fund and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Complete information on Market Square Concerts’ 2012-13 season is at: www.marketsquareconcerts.org

Price: $30, $25:seniors, $5:college students; Free: K-12 & $5:one accompanying adult