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10/14/11

The 2011-12 Boise Chamber Music Series continues Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 with "the premier American indie string quartet": Carpe Diem, one of the most versatile quartets of their generation. Carpe Diem has earned critical acclaim with innovative programming, electrifying performances, and a passion for audience engagement. The group's musical passion has led them down the paths of gypsy, tango, folk, pop, rock, and jazz-inspired music, but the quartet is equally at home with the traditional string quartet repertoire. Their Boise performance will feature Mendelssohn's posthumous Quartet in F Minor, new works by jazz pianist/arranger Bradley Sowash and Carpe Diem violist Korine Fugiwara, a Gypsy Czardas arranged from a work by Vitorrio Monti, and Astor Piazzolla's miniature tone poem, "Autumn," from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

This year Carpe Diem is collaborating with Latin Grammy winner Raul Juarena; their busy recording schedule includes recording the nine string quartets of Sergey Taneyev for the Naxos label. The first CD of this series was selected for the 51st Grammy Awards Entry List (2009) in four categories: Best Classical Album, Best Chamber Music Performance, Best New Artist, and Best Engineered Album-Classical. The quartet is the resident ensemble for Columbus Dance Theater, and their joint project The String Machine was aired by WOSU-PBS television through 2007-2008, and nominated for an Emmy award.

Carpe Diem will coach a string quartet master class Saturday morning, Nov. 5, from 10:30 to 11:30 am, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Two Boise State student quartets will perform. This educational event is free and open to the public.

For single tickets at $25 ($20 students and seniors) to the Friday, Nov. 4 concert in the Velma V. Morrison Center Recital Hall, call 426-1216 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The events of the Boise Chamber Music Series are supported by the Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State Dept. of Music

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A season of all-new faces and wide-ranging repertoire begins Sept. 30 with the Claremont Trio, a bright and beautiful young ensemble residing in New York City, playing Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn. First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance." Then in November, the famously flexible Carpe Diem String Quartet brings their mixture of original, cross-over, and classical passions to bear on a concert unlike any before experienced on the Series. The Calder Quartet—elegant, sophisticated, and current—joins us from their home base in Los Angeles on Mar. 9 and stays through Saturday morning to judge the Seventh Annual BCMS Young Artist String Quartet Competition. And finally, the long-sought-after Los Angeles Piano Quartet will appear in concert with guest oboist Mark Hill in a program of piano quartets and mixed works, from Brahms to Martinu.