As the resident string quartet at the University of Calgary, the  UCalgary String Quartet regularly performs in Calgary and beyond.  Formed in 1994, the quartet has performed in concert halls across  Canada and has been broadcasted regionally and nationally on CBC  Radio. Members of the UCalgary String Quartet are: Edmond Agopian and  Burcu Goker (violins), Dean O'Brien (viola), and Beth Root Sandvoss  (cello). Ms. Goker is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in  Violin Performance at the University of Calgary under the instruction  of Edmond Agopian.

Canadian violinist Guillaume Tardif has appeared as guest soloists  with orchestras in Canada, United States, Hungary, Brazil, and Peru.  Among the youngest recipients of the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree  from the Eastman School of Music, Tardif earned different awards at  the Canadian Music Competition. He has an extensive history of  chamber music and recital performances, as well as a soloist and  concertmaster with many major orchestras around the world. He is  currently Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the  University of Alberta

The programme includes Dvorak’s "Terzetto for Two Violins and Viola"  and Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodály’s "Serenade for Two Violins and  Viola", as well as "Sonatina for Two Violins" by Canadian composer  Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. The UCalgary String Quartet also  performs Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 59 “Rasumovsky” as  part of their Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle (2006-2009).

A pre-concert lecture by U of C music professor will take place in  the Husky Oil Great Hall of the Rozsa Centre at 7:30 p.m.

Program:

DVORAK
Terzetto in C major, Op. 74

SOPHIE CARMEN ECKHARDT-GRAMATTE
Duo for Two Violins

 KODALY
Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12

BEETHOVEN
String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 ‘’Rasumovsky’’
(The Complete Beethoven String Quartet Cycle – performance No. 5)