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Fry Street Quartet
  • About
    • Quartet Bio
    • Quartet History
    • Robert Waters
    • Rebecca McFaul
    • Bradley Ottesen
    • Anne Francis Bayless
  • Work
    • Overview
    • Concert Career
    • Collaborations
    • Education
  • Festival
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    • Albums
    • Audio/Video
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    • Publicity Packet
  • Acclaim
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    • The Film
    • The Album
    • The Website
    • #MakeItYours
    • FSQ Climate Commitment

2024/25 Season


FSQ at USU Series | Nature’s Resonance

with Jin-Xiang Yu, soprano & Sasha Kasman-Laude, piano

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
September 24, 2024 @ 7:30pm

Laura Kaminsky | Arboreal for String Quartet*
Aida Shirazi | They Need to Remember for soprano and string quartet**
Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57

*World Premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Arboreal for String Quartet. We’re thrilled to open our season with the world premiere of Arboreal, a new work written for the Fry Street Quartet by celebrated composer Laura Kaminsky.

**They Need to Remember by Aida Shirazi.  They Need to Remember, a work for string quartet and soprano by Aida Shirazi, was written for the Fry Street Quartet and premiered last spring as part of the NOVA series in Salt Lake City.

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FSQ at USU Series | Nature’s Resonance

with Jason Hardink, piano

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
October 30, 2024 @ 7:30pm

Claude Debussy | String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Jessie Montgomery | Source Code
Bela Bartók | Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano with Robert Waters, violin & Jason Hardink, piano

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Dumbarton Concerts

Dumbarton United Methodist Church
Saturday, January 25, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Franz Joseph Haydn | Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Clarice Assad | Canções da America
Claude Debussy | Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

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Concerts on Colonial

Faith Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 3:00pm

Program TBA

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Hamilton College Performing Arts Series

Hamilton College, Wellin Hall, Schambach Center
Friday, January 31, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Program TBA

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FSQ at USU Series | Nature’s Resonance

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
February 21, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Josef Haydn | String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Hitomi Oba | World Premiere*
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge finale, Op. 133

*This world premiere by Hitomi Oba adds to a growing body of music inspired by our long-standing relationship with composer Gabriela Lena Frank and her Creative Academy of Music, and particularly the Composing Earth project for emerging composers.

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NOVA Gallery Series: Fry Street Plays the Great Fugue

Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Sunday, February 23, 2025 @ 3:00pm

Josef Haydn | String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Hitomi Oba | World Premiere*
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge finale, Op. 133

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UNLV Chamber Music Society

University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Lee and Thomas Beam Music Center, Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall
March 6, 2025 @ 7:30pm

Josef Haydn | String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20, No. 4
Jessie Montgomery | Source Code
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge finale, Op. 133

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NOVA Libby Gardner Series: FSQ plays Jessie Montgomery’s Source Code

Libby Gardner Concert Hall
Sunday, March 9, 2025 @ 3:00pm

Grammy-winning composer and violinist Jessie Montgomery joins NOVA artists to perform her own music, as well as works by Bartók, Okpebholo, and Bansal.  The FSQ will close the program with a performance of her Source Code for string quartet.

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USU’s Research Landscapes Series | Bridging Worlds: Chamber Music for a Changing Planet

O. C. Tanner Headquarters
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 4:00pm

As part of the event, the Fry Street Quartet will perform Lek, a captivating piece by composer Nicolas Lell Benavides, written for string quartet and electronics. The electronics incorporate field recordings of the sage grouse’s iconic mating ritual, captured in Utah, and blend seamlessly with the quartet’s performance. The group will discuss the profound role that art-making plays in fostering observation, beauty, wonder, and a shared cultural understanding. The event will also include a question-and-answer session and is free and open to the public.

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Neskowin Chamber Music

Chapel of Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp
Sunday, April 6, 2025 @ 3:00 pm

Program TBA

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Logan Tabernacle Noontime Series

Logan Tabernacle
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 @ 12:00 pm

Works by Beethoven and Debussy. Free and open to the public.

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Fry Street Chamber Musical Festival Concert #1

Fry Street Quartet with Jennifer Kozbial Posadas, violin & John T. Posadas, viola

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10                                                              
Krzysztof Penderecki: Ciaccona for Violin and Viola                                                          
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133         

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Fry Street Chamber Musical Festival Concert #2

with William Hagen, violin; Anne Francis Bayless, cello; John T. Posadas, viola; Cahill Smith, piano

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Monday, July 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Igor Stravinsky: Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano (from Pulcinella)
Fritz Kreisler: Anniversary Homage (Lotus Land, Humoreske, Praeludium & Allegro)
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 87   

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Fry Street Chamber Musical Festival Concert #3

Fry Street Quartet with Brant Bayless, viola; Koji Atwood & Cahill Smith, piano

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Thursday, July 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Rebecca Clarke: Dumka for Violin, Viola, and Piano                                                             
Robert Schumann: Marchenbilder for Viola and Piano, Op. 113
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135
Johannes Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat Major, Op. 18       

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