Avalon String Quartet to perform Beethoven’s works

Submitted by Northern Illinois University

The Avalon String Quartet will continue its Beethoven Cycle at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall at 400 Lucinda Ave. on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. The Avalon will perform Beethoven’s Quartets Op. 18 No. 4, Op. 74, and Op. 132. The concert is free and open to the public.

The members of the Avalon Quartet are Blaise Magniere, first violin; Richard O. Ryan, endowed chair in violin; Marie Wang, second violin; Anthony Devroye, viola; and Cheng-Hou Lee, cello. The members of the Avalon Quartet teach applied lessons and coach chamber music, and are active in their performance career bringing attention to the NIU School of Music from the concert stage and in other outreach activities.

They annually perform a number of concerts on campus and in a concert series produced by NIU at Symphony Center in Chicago. The Avalon quartet was founded in 1995, held residencies at Northern Illinois University and the Hartt School, and prior to their appointment at NIU in 2007, was the faculty quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University-South Bend Raclin School of the Arts for four years.

For more information, email Lynn Slater at lslater@niu.edu in the School of Music or call (815) 753-1546. If you are unable to attend, this concert will be live-streamed on the webpage. Go to the NIU School of Music website www.niu.edu/music. Click on “Live HD webcasts.”

For information on the Avalon String Quartet, visit www.avalonquartet.com.