The Jupiter String Quartet brings over 20 years of intimate collaboration to the stage. Known for their warmth, insight, and adventurous spirit, they bridge classical and contemporary works with clarity and heart, illuminating connections between pieces with each thoughtfully crafted program.

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Jupiter String Quartet

With a fresh perspective toward both beloved classics and modern compositions, the Balourdet Quartet's willingness to take creative risks earned it the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as Chamber Music America's 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award. Violinists Jusin DeFilippis and Angela Bae, and cellist Russell Houston first bonded as friends at the Taos School of Music and were joined by violist Benjamin Zannoni at Rice University where the quartet was formed. The Balourdet offers a program titled "Learning to Fly" for its Krannert Center debut. From the opening rustlings of Schubert's Quartettsatz and Ravel's classic String Quartet in F Major, to the soaring rhythms of Alberga's electrifying Quartet No. 2 and Nicky Sohn's Galaxy Back to You, the string quartet becomes a high-flying and uplifting vehicle. Amy Beach's String Quartet in One Movement, a profound glimpse of the American perspective, completes the program.

Balourdet Quartet

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Atlas Maior

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### Event Description: Aris Quartet and Jupiter String Quartet at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

**Event Title:** Aris Quartet and Jupiter String Quartet

**Date and Time:** Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 7:30 PM CT

**Venue:** Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Event Overview:**
Experience a rare and thrilling performance as the dynamic Aris Quartet joins forces with the renowned Jupiter String Quartet to present Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20. This masterwork, celebrated as one of the miracles of 19th-century music, continues to captivate audiences since its debut in 1825. Whether you are hearing this piece for the first time or revisiting it as an old favorite, this collaboration promises to be an unforgettable musical event.

**Performers:**
- **Aris Quartet:** Formed in 2009 at Frankfurt am Main, the Aris Quartet has quickly risen to international acclaim, winning prestigious awards such as the Chamber Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, BBC New Generation Artists, ECHO Rising Stars, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. The quartet consists of violinist Anna Katharina Wildermuth, violist Caspar Vinzens, violinist Noémi Zipperling, and cellist Lukas Sieber.
- **Jupiter String Quartet:** Described by The New Yorker as an ensemble of "eloquent intensity," the Jupiter String Quartet is a mainstay of the American chamber music scene. Formed in 2001, the quartet includes violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel, and cellist Daniel McDonough. The group is known for its intimate and expressive performances.

**Program:**
- **Felix Mendelssohn:** Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
- Additional works to be announced (TBA)

**Tickets:** Tickets are not yet available. Please check the Krannert Center website for updates.

**Additional Information:**
With deep gratitude, Krannert Center thanks all Patron Sponsors and Corporate and Community Sponsors. If you believe in the life-affirming experiences that Krannert Center and the performing arts at Illinois make possible, please consider making a gift at [Krannert Center Giving](https://krannertcenter.com/give).

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Aris Quartet and Jupiter String Quartet

### Event Description: Jupiter String Quartet with David Ying, Cello and Phillip Ying, Viola

**Date and Time:**  
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 7:30 PM CT

**Location:**  
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Event Overview:**  
Join the acclaimed Jupiter String Quartet as they collaborate with distinguished musicians David Ying (cello) and Phillip Ying (viola) for an evening of remarkable string sextets. This special performance will feature a program anchored by one of Johannes Brahms’ most renowned chamber works, showcasing the ensemble's passion for both performance and education.

**Program Details:**
- **Richard Strauss:** String Sextet from *Capriccio*, Op. 85
- **Erwin Schulhoff:** String Sextet
- **Johannes Brahms:** String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18

**About the Performers:**
- **Jupiter String Quartet:** Known for their dynamic performances and commitment to education, the Jupiter Quartet frequently collaborates with peer musicians and engages with future audiences through educational performances in schools and community centers. They have a busy masterclass schedule, working with young performers at prestigious institutions such as Northwestern University, Eastman School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival.
  
- **Ying Quartet:** Gaining professional prominence in the early 1990s, the Ying Quartet is now quartet-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music. They are celebrated for their innovative approach to concert performance, which has taken them to renowned venues worldwide, including the White House. Violist Phillip Ying is a noted speaker and advocate for arts-in-education, while cellist David Ying, along with his wife, pianist Elinor Freer, directs the Skaneateles Festival, known for its adventurous programming.

**Ticket Information:**  
Tickets are not yet available. Please check the Krannert Center website for updates.

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Krannert Center extends deep gratitude to all Patron Sponsors and Corporate and Community Sponsors. If you believe in the life-affirming experiences that Krannert Center and the performing arts at Illinois make possible, please consider making a gift at [KrannertCenter.com/Give](http://KrannertCenter.com/Give) or [faa.illinois.edu/giving](http://faa.illinois.edu/giving).

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Mark your calendars for an unforgettable evening of classical music with the Jupiter String Quartet and the Ying Quartet at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Jupiter String Quartet with David Ying, cello and Phillip Ying, viola

This Faculty Across Illinois Showcase features music by Armando Bayolo, Alex Zhang, Kerry Hagan, Sean Harold, Marc Mellits, and Jason Finkelman.

Illinois Modern Ensemble

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Yo-yo Ma, Cello And Kathryn Stott, Piano

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s multi-faceted career is testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. With partners from around the world and across disciplines, he creates programs that stretch the boundaries of genre and tradition to explore music-making as a means not only to share and express meaning, but also as a model for the cultural collaboration he considers essential to a strong society. Yo-Yo Ma is joined by longtime collaborator Kathryn Stott. Internationally recognized as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative pianists, the Washington Post wrote Stott is “every bit Ma’s equal, playing with striking individuality.” Together they have toured the globe and released multiple albums including 2020's Songs of Comfort and Hope in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sinfonia Da Camera: From Ukraine To The Great Gate Of Kiev

The University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra is the School of Music’s premier orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra performs major literature from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Musicians in the orchestra consist of the finest students in the School of Music, as well as exceptionally talented non-majors from across the University of Illinois campus.

University Of Illinois Symphony Orchestra

Tony Award-winning star of stage and screen John Cameron Mitchell (Joe vs. Carole, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), one of alt-culture’s boldest creators, joins forces with international cabaret star Amber Martin and special guests for an evening of songs, stories, and characters, all chosen by the hand of fate and the "cassette roulette." Backed up by Hedwig's Broadway Music Director, Justin Craig, and band, it’s never the same show twice!

John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin Star In Cassette Roulette

The Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law). Now enjoying their 20th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music.

Jupiter String Quartet With Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano

This event has been rescheduled from November 2023; it will begin at 5pm to accommodate technical setup for the performance and to avoid conflict with the Grammy Awards broadcast on the evening of February 4. Tickets for the original date will be valid for the new date unless they have been returned. If you have any questions or choose to return your tickets, please phone the Ticket Office at 217.333.6280 Tuesday through Friday 10am to 6pm, or email kran-tix@illinois.edu. (The Ticket Office counter is only open on performance days.)

Kronos Five Decades

With hits like “Passionate Kisses” and “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her,” Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five GRAMMY Awards (with 16 nominations), two CMA awards, two Academy of Country Music awards and is one of only fifteen female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Over the course of her acclaimed career, Carpenter has sold over 16 million records. In 2020, Carpenter recorded two albums: The Dirt and the Stars, released in August 2020, and One Night Lonely, recorded live without an audience at the legendary Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Virginia during the COVID-19 shut down, and nominated for Best Folk Album at the 64th GRAMMY Awards in 2022. Of the new album The Dirt and the Stars, produced by Ethan Johns (Ray LaMontagne, Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon) and recorded entirely live at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath in southwest England,Carpenter quotes the writer Margaret Renkl, “‘We are all in the process of becoming.’ That doesn’t stop at a certain age. To be always a student of art and music and life, as she says, that, to me, is what makes life worth living. The songs are very personal and they’re difficult in some ways, and definitely come from places of pain and self-illumination, but also places of joy, discovery, and the rewards of self-knowledge. They arrived from looking outward as much as inward, speaking to life changes, growing older, politics, compassion, #metoo, heartbreak, empathy, the power of memory, time and place. There are many themes, but they all come back to that initial truth that we are all constantly ‘becoming’ through art and expression.”

Mary Chapin Carpenter And Shawn Colvin

Sinfonia da Camera presents an evening of intimate—and adventurous—20th-century chamber music featuring their illustrious principal musicians. The evening begins with the most popular of Milhaud’s more than 400 compositions, Scaramouche for two pianos. Orchestra percussion stars William Moersch and Ricardo Flores join to present a performance of Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The three-movement work experiments with the many varied sounds the piano and the percussion can produce together. Featuring principal oboist John Dee, William Grant Still’s Incantation and Dance for Oboe and Piano follows intermission with a melancholy evocation of a distant land that transitions to a joyful pentatonic dance. The evening concludes with Poulenc’s charming and exuberant Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet. 

Sinfonia Da Camera: 20th-century Chamber Gems

Tango maestro Pablo Ziegler—the Grammy-winning pianist and composer who helped shape the modern tango—delivers stripped-down, jazz-tinged arrangements of his essential repertoire, offering a raw, elemental concert program. From fiery, improvised solos to delicately woven ensemble playing, the trio delivers unmatched readings of beloved works by Ziegler, as well as modern classics by his late, longtime collaborator Astor Piazzolla. As one the most important living interpreters of nuevo tango, a concert by Pablo Ziegler offers a chance to witness the living history of this vital musical tradition.

The Pablo Ziegler Jazz Tango Trio

The first half of this globally inspired program, “Folk Encounters,” pairs Su Lian Tan’s evocation of traditional South Asian puppet theatre with Wynton Marsalis’ exploration of the complicated American Creole experience through the lens of a New Orleans ball. The program finishes with folk-inspired chamber music by Dvořák. Dvořák’s exuberant Viola Quintet reflects the composer’s delight in finding kinship between the folk music of America and his beloved homeland of Czechoslovakia.

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