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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet - TAKE FOUR: Chamber Music for Everyone!
DESCRIPTION:Shane Chen\, Nicholas Waters\, violins\nJosef Hanna\, viola\nMee Na Lojewski\, cello \nAffinity Quartet returns from Festival performances in Germany and Finland with a dramatic musical program including a work by Sydney composer Justin Williams\, also founding violist of the TinAlley String Quartet. Don’t miss Affinity Quartet’s second instalment of ‘TAKE FOUR: Chamber Music for Everyone!’ at Tempo Rubato. \nPROGRAM \nFranz SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D 703\nJUSTIN WILLIAMS (AU) Movement for String Quartet\nL. v .BEETHOVEN String Quartet no.10 ‘Harp’ \n\nMonday 8 September 2025 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM (UTC+10)\n\nTempo Rubato\, 34 Breese St\, Brunswick VIC 3056 \nTICKETS $35 | $25\nOnline sales close at 7:30pm on the day of the concert. Tickets can be purchased at the door\, dependent on availability. Tempo Rubato is a cashless venue.
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet: Beethoven Opus 18 Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Gasworks Arts Park & Affinity Quartet\nBeethoven Opus 18\nSeptember 19–22\, 2024\n\nMelbourne’s own international prizewinners\, the Affinity Quartet\, returns from a period in Europe to perform Beethoven’s first foray into string quartets\, the Opus 18\, over two nights only at Gasworks Theatre. With these six compact and ground-breaking string quartets\, a young Beethoven\, still in his twenties\, defies the logic of the Enlightenment to create a striking new direction for this intimate medium. Don’t miss these powerfully crafted\, timeless programs performed by one of the most exciting chamber music groups in Australia. \nPROGRAM:  Part 2 \nString Quartet in A Major\, Op.18 no.5 \nString Quartet in C minor\, Op.18 no.4 \nString Quartet in B Flat Major\, Op.18 no.6 \nSunday 22 September 4.00pm – 5.45pm \nGasworks Arts Park – Gasworks Theatre\, Cnr Graham and Pickles Streets\, Albert Park\, Melbourne \nTICKETS: $40 – $45
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/affinity-quartet/
LOCATION:Gasworks Theatre\, 21 Graham Street\, Albert Park\, Victoria\, 3206\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet: Beethoven Opus 18
DESCRIPTION:Melbourne’s own international prizewinners\, the Affinity Quartet\, returns from a period in Europe to perform Beethoven’s first foray into string quartets\, the Opus 18\, over two nights only at Gasworks Theatre. With these six compact and ground-breaking string quartets\, a young Beethoven\, still in his twenties\, defies the logic of the Enlightenment to create a striking new direction for this intimate medium. Don’t miss these powerfully crafted\, timeless programs performed by one of the most exciting chamber music groups in Australia. \nPROGRAM: Part 1  \nString Quartet in F Major\, Op. 18 no.1 \nString Quartet in D major\, Op.18 no.3 \nString Quartet in G Major\, Op.18 no.2 \nThursday 19 September\, 7pm – 8.45pm\n \nGasworks Arts Park – Gasworks Theatre\, Cnr Graham and Pickles Streets\, Albert Park\, Melbourne \nTICKETS: $40 – $45
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/affinity-quartet-beethoven-opus-18/
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet – Innovators
DESCRIPTION:Affinity Quartet perform revolutionary masterpieces by Haydn and Bartók.\nJoin Affinity Quartet as they perform a program of innovative treasures for string quartet by Haydn and Bartók. Opening with Haydn’s String Quartet Op.76\, No.3 in C ‘Emperor’\, witness this ground-breaking composition which was lauded at the time as being ‘full of invention\, fire\, good taste\, and new effects.’ At the turn of the twentieth century\, Bartók’s first String Quartet looks back to Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet in C-sharp minor\, Op.131\, to forge a visceral\, haunting musical language that he would expand upon over the next thirty years. \nBe transported to an era of artistic brilliance and musical ingenuity as Affinity Quartet perform revolutionary masterpieces. Representing the next generation of Australian chamber music\, Affinity Quartet have performed across prestigious venues such as St Martin in the Fields\, Pollack Hall\, and Sony Auditorium. Do not miss Affinity Quartet’s final performance in Melbourne before they return to Europe to study under esteemed Austrian violinist\, Günter Pichler\, founder of the renowned Alban Berg Quartet. \n\nWednesday 13 December 2023 6pm;   MRC\, Primrose Potter Salon \nDuration: 1 hour 10 mins (no interval) Please note\, running times are approximate and subject to change. \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: Standard $37 ($30 Concession)
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/affinity-quartet-innovators/
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet: Infinite Affinities
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Melbourne ensemble taking the world by storm.\nAffinity Quartet represents the next generation of Australia’s chamber music stars\, having developed its craft in Europe to critical acclaim. It brings home an inspired approach to music-making\, matched by its adventurous spirit as a string quartet for and of today. \nAbout the concert\nFollowing their recent 2nd prize award at the 2023 Mozart International String Quartet Competition Salzburg\, Affinity Quartet return to the Primrose Potter Salon for a program featuring two seminal string quartets. \nOpening with Haydn’s String Quartet Op.50\, No.5 ‘Dream’\, this work beautifully showcases the dance between violin\, viola and cello. Beethoven’s String Quartet No.11 however\, was considered an experiment on compositional techniques of the time with the composer himself rumoured to believe it too extreme for audience consumption\, quoted as saying ‘[the piece] is never to be performed in public.’ \nSandwiched between these two great and vastly different works is the world premiere of a piece that brings together both the progressive and popular elements of string quartet composition: Tom Misson’s Melbourne Recital Centre and the University of Melbourne commissioned Infinite Affinities. \n\nSaturday 29 July 2023 7pm;   MRC\, Primrose Potter Salon   Duration: 1 hour (no interval) \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS: Standard $37 ($30 Concession)
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/affinity-quartet-infinite-affinities/
LOCATION:Melbourne Recital Centre\, Primrose Potter Salon\, 31 Sturt St\, Southbank VIC 3006\, Australia\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3929\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet – Perpetual Motion
DESCRIPTION:A stirring display of emotion and musicality.\nAbout the artists\nAffinity Quartet represents the next generation of Australia’s chamber music stars\, having developed its craft in Europe to critical acclaim. It brings home an inspired approach to music-making\, matched by its adventurous spirit as a string quartet for and of today. \nAbout the concert\nAffinity Quartet opens their program with Haydn’s 31st String Quartet\, the Op.33 No.1 in B minor. Following a break of ten years from composing string quartets\, Haydn describes his Op.33 set as having a ‘new and special’ style. The key of B minor itself is unusual – a choice that signals the exploratory and unconventional direction of Haydn’s quartet writing in the 1780s. \nMendelssohn’s sixth and final string quartet was composed just two months before his death in 1847. In this 30 minute work\, subtitled Requiem for Fanny\, Mendelssohn turns to the intimacy of string quartet writing to grapple with the sudden death of his only sister and closest confidante\, producing one of his most musically incisive and arresting works. \nAustralian composer and violist Matt Laing\, describes his new work for Affinity Quartet as ‘an abstract still life in perpetual motion\, where even the smallest\, stillest things have a hyperactive inner life’. \n\nThursday 17 November 2022 6pm; Melbourne recital Centre\, Primrose Potter Salon \nDuration: 1 hour 15 mins (no interval) \n\n\n\n\nTickets: Standard $50 ($40 Concession)
URL:https://classicmelbourne.com.au/event/affinity-quartet-perpetual-motion/
LOCATION:Melbourne Recital Centre\, Primrose Potter Salon\, 31 Sturt St\, Southbank VIC 3006\, Australia\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3929\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Affinity Quartet – Through the Looking Glass
DESCRIPTION:The next generation of Australia’s chamber music stars.\nProgram\nCaroline Shaw Entr’acte \nJoseph Haydn String Quartet Op.76/4 ‘Sunrise’ \nBéla Bartók String Quartet No.4 \nAbout the artists\nJosephine Chung violin\nNicholas Waters violin\nRuby Shirres viola\nMee Na Lojewski cello \nAffinity Quartet represents the next generation of Australia’s chamber music stars\, having developed its craft in Europe to critical acclaim. It brings home an inspired approach to music-making\, matched by its adventurous spirit as a string quartet for and of today. \nAbout the concert\n‘I love the way some music suddenly takes you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass\, in a kind of absurd\, subtle\, technicolour transition.’ These words by composer Caroline Shaw describe the inspiration for Entr’acte\, Affinity Quartet’s opening composition. Following is Haydn String Quartet Op.76/4 ‘Sunrise’ and finishing with Hungarian composer Bartók String Quartet No.4. \nAffinity Quartet \n\nMonday 27 June 2022 6pm – Melbourne Recital Centre\, Primrose Potter Salon \nDuration: 1 hour 15 mins (no interval) \n\n\nTICKETS: Standard $50 ($40 Concession)
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