Anna Snezhina, violin
Anna Yanchishina, violin
Ksenia Zhuleva, viola
Alexandra Negodaeva, cello
Formed in 2000 at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, the Rusquartet won first prize at the 2006 Shostakovich Competition in Rheinsberg, Germany. Prize winners in the 2000 Beethoven Festival in Moscow, all four musicians currently study at the Conservatory under Dmitri Shebalin, formerly of the Borodin String Quartet.
Performance schedule
Recital Round — Wednesday, August 29, 2:00 p.m.
Haydn Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5 “Lark”
Bartók Quartet No. 4
Romantic Round — Thursday, August 30, 10:30 a.m.
Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A Major
Canadian Commission Round — Friday, August 31, 10:30 a.m.
Kelly-Marrie Murphy Dark Energy
Beethoven or Schubert Round — Saturday, September 1, 7:30 p.m.
Beethoven Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”