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BRUNSWICK — Pianist Peter Serkin will join the DaPonte String Quartet at Bowcoin College Thursday, June 6, for an evening of piano quintets.
The recital will be in the Studzinski Recital Hall.
The group will perform Brahms’ “Piano Quintet Op. 34 in F Minor” and Robert Schumann’s “Piano Quintet Op. 44 in E flat Major.”
Serkin’s link to the DaPonte Quartet goes back many years when he first performed with DSQ violinist Lydia Forbes. His own musical heritage extends over generations — his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch, and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. In addition to playing with the major symphony orchestras of the world, Serkin is a dedicated chamber musician with a special feeling for both Brahms and Schumann, having recently made several arrangements of four-hand music by Schumann for various chamber ensembles as well as transcribing Brahms’s organ Chorale-Preludes for one piano, four-hands.
The DaPonte String Quartet is Maine’s premier string ensemble. Founded in 1991 in Philadelphia, members moved to Mid-Coast Maine more than 20 years ago on a “temporary” National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America rural residency grant; but once the grant ended, the ensemble had fallen in love with Maine and decided to stay. They now perform more than 50 times a year in Maine and across the country.
Tickets will be available at the door or at www.DaPonte.org. For more information, call 207-529-4555.
PHOTO: The DaPonte String Quartet. (Submitted photo)
