Gershon Gerchikov, violin
Alexandra Kazovsky, violin
Sergey Tarashchansky, viola
Amit Even-Tov, cello
Founded in Jerusalem in 1998 but currently studying at the New England Conservatory, the Ariel String Quartet debuted in 2000 at the Jerusalem Music Centre, going on to perform at venues including the Musée du Louvre, the Kennedy Centre, and Boston’s Jordan Hall. Grand Prize winners of the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, they placed first in the 2003 Franz Schubert and the Music of Modernity Competition in Graz, Austria in 2003.
Performance schedule
Recital Round — Wednesday, August 29, 7:30 p.m.
Haydn Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
Bartók Quartet No. 4
Romantic Round — Thursday, August 30, 2:00 p.m.
Brahms Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
Canadian Commission Round — Friday, August 31, 10:30 a.m.
Kelly-Marrie Murphy Dark Energy
Beethoven or Schubert Round — Saturday, September 1, 2:30 p.m.
Beethoven Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Finals — Sunday, September 2, 7:30 p.m.
Mozart Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonant’