String quartet to perform concert at St. Charles library
The Maud Powell String Quartet will perform at the St. Charles Public Library as part of its Sunday Afternoon Concert Series at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5.
This classical concert is sponsored by the St. Charles Public Library Foundation with a gift from the St. Charles Art and Music Festival Fund. This free concert will be held in the library's Carnegie Community Room, 1 S. Sixth Ave.
The 2010-11 season of the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra marks the fourth season of the Maud Powell String Quartet, named in honor of violinist Maud Powell, a Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame inductee who was America's first classical music superstar.
The Maud Powell String Quartet is an honors ensemble of the EYSO Chamber Music Institute, selected by audition and offered on full scholarship. The quartet studies with such renowned coaches as violinist Rachel Barton Pine, as well as members of the Pacifica Quartet, Pro Arte Quartet and Isabella Lippi, concertmaster of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. This ensemble is made possible by the generosity of EYSO patrons Ed and Joyce McFarland Dlugopolski.
This season's members are violinists Patrick Connolly of Schaumburg and Jonathan Lee of Aurora, violist Bobby Pirtle of Lombard and cellist Christopher Mendez of Algonquin.