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.
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
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
Hamilton College Performing Arts Series
Hamilton College, Wellin Hall, Schambach Center
Friday, January 31, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Program TBA
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.
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
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
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.
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.