Poster Vera Quartet in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio
Vera Quartet in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio
Nate Ryan
Performance Today®

Vera Quartet

The Vera Quartet are currently Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with the Pacifica Quartet. They're also our latest PT Young Artists in Residence. Get to know them on Saturday's Performance Today, and hear them perform Beethoven's String Quartet No. 9 at the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio in St. Paul, MN.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

J. S. Bach (arr. Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer): Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645
Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Chris Thile, mandolin; Edgar Meyer, double bass
Bach Trios
Nonesuch 5589332

Giovanni Bottesini: Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor
Edgar Meyer, double bass; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN

Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is William Beyer from Des Moines, IA

Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Sea and the Seagulls, from 'Etudes Tableaux, Op. 39
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY

Hour 2

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer): Sonata for Viola da Gamba No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029: Movement 2
Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Chris Thile, mandolin; Edgar Meyer, double bass
Bach Trios
Nonesuch 5589332

Edgar Meyer: New Piece for Orchestra
Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Nashville Symphony, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 18 No. 6: Movements 1 & 2
Vera Quartet: Pedro Rodriguez, violin; Patricia Garica, violin; Ines Molares, viola; Justin Goldsmith, cello
PT Young Artist in Residence, Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, MN

Frederic Chopin: Mazurka No. 2 in G minor, Op. 67
Ran Dank, piano
The Gilmore International keyboard Festival, Wellspring Theater, Kalamazoo, MI

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