The Apple Hill String Quartet, with special guest Judith Gordon on piano, returns to Bass Hall at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture for its annual spring concert Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
The evening features Franz Schubert’s “String Quartet in A minor,”Amy Beach’s “Piano Quintet” and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music alumna Sato Matsui’s “String Quartet.”
The Apple Hill String Quartet are artistic directors and resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and winner of the CMAcclaim award from Chamber Music America. The quartet’s members are Elise Kuder on violin, Jesse MacDonald on violin, Mike Kelley on viola and Rupert Thompson on cello. They serve as the music directors and core faculty for Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop in Nelson, N.H.
Gordon gave her debut recital in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1990. She has performed concertos by Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Ravel with the Boston Pops Orchestra, and works by Bach, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Hindemith, Berg and Boulez with such ensembles as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. She has worked with a wide range of living composers, among them Martin Brody, Peter Child, Alan Fletcher, John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Peter Lieberson and Donald Wheelock, almost all of whom have written works specifically for her. In 1997 she was selected by the Boston Globe as Musician of the Year. Gordon has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Music at Smith College since 2006.
Tickets for the concert are $30, $25 for Monadnock Center members and $10 for students with valid identification and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased online at monadnockcenter.org or by calling the Monadnock Center at 603-924-3235. Advance purchase is encouraged.
The Monadnock Center is at 19 Grove St. in downtown Peterborough.