Send your best wishes to Excelsa Quartet at their final concert before the Schubert and Modern Music Chamber Music Competition in Graz, Austria.

With the program they present this evening, the quartet will compete against twenty other elite string quartets from around the world.

Program

• Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 8 in B-flat, D. 112
  I. Allegro ma non troppo
  II. Andante sostenuto
  III. Minuetto
  IV. Presto
• Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
  I. Andante - Con moto - Allegro
  II. Adagio - Vivace
  III. Moderato - Andante - Adagio
  IV. Allegro - Andante - Adagio
• Thomas Adès: "Arcadiana" (1994)
  V. L'Embarquement
  VI. O Albion
  VII. Lethe
• Bedrich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1, "From My Life"
  I. Allegro vivo appassionato
  II. Allegro moderato à la Polka
  III. Largo sostenuto
  ​IV. Vivace

Excelsa’s travel to Austria has been made possible by a generous gift from the Steppel family in loving memory of Barbara K. Steppel. The quartet says, “As an all-female quartet, we are privileged to honor an outstanding woman who served as a role model and spread the joy of music by teaching and playing the cello.”