Acacia Quartet performs with Gerard Willems

 

Fresh from working with American composer and conductor Eric Whitacre, the Acacia Quartet is joined by pianist Gerard Willems in a programme of Romantic Masterpieces. The concert will be in the intimate and resonant acoustic of the Big Schoolroom at Sydney Grammar School, one of Sydney’s oldest performance venues.

The Acacia Quartet:

Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violins, Stefan Duwe, viola, Anna Martin-Scrase, cello.

The Programme:

Alfred Hill String Quartet No 1 ‘Maori’
Franz Schubert String Quartet No 13 ‘Rosamunde’
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44

Single $35/ Concession $25 (under 16 years free)

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