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Stradivarian String Quartet Performs at Library

 

The Stradivarian String Quartet will be giving a concert at the Patrick Beaver Memorial Library on Thursday, August 11th at 12:15.  The concert features musicians Andrew McCallum, Michael Patrone, Philip Kukla, and Lyndsay Watson, performing the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Gershwin.  The performance is the culmination of a week of training in a camp setting.  The public is invited to the free event.

The Stradivarian String Quartet is the premier student string quartet in the Unifour.  Formed in September 2002 from the inspiration of the Fry Street Quartet, the former resident string quartet with the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Stradivarian Quartet features Andrew McCallum and Michael Patroneon, violins, Philip Kukla, viola, and Lyndsay Watson, cello.  Andrew, Michael and Lyndsay are 10th grade students at Hickory High School and Philip is an 11th grade student at Hickory High School. All four musicians have been selected by audition to participate in the North Carolina All State Orchestra for the past four years.

The quartet has been showcased in many venues in North Carolina, including the NC Senate and the Burke Historical Society’s Music in the Meadows Concert Series. The quartet has also performed for the Hickory Public Schools Centennial Celebration, and numerous weddings, church services, dinners, receptions and other events. 

Members of the quartet study privately with some of the finest performers in our area. Andrew studies violin with Paula Zimmerman, Assistant Concertmaster of the Western Piedmont Symphony. Michael studies violin with Ms. Zimmerman and RJ Wohlman, Associate Concertmaster of the Western Piedmont Symphony. Philip studies viola with James Dellinger, Hickory High School Orchestra Director. Lyndsay studies cello with Anne Sellitti, Principal Cellist with the Salisbury Symphony and Associate Principal Cellist with the Winston-Salem Symphony.  Ms. Sellitti and Mr. Wohlman served as faculty for the week-long music camp.

For information about the concert call the library at 304-0500 ext. 249. For information about the quartet contact Mike Watson, manager, at 828-495-8768.

 

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