2026/27 Season
Bonneville Chamber Music Series | BCMf 20
FSQ is joined by violist Brant Bayless for the Dvorak Quintet
Val A. Browning Center | Allred Theater
September 11, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Andre Mehmari | Solo
Andre Mehmari | Shostakovichiana
Antonin Dvorak | String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 97
The Bonneville Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary with a program that features pianist and composer Andre Mehmari, The Fry Street Quartet, violist Brant Bayless, violinist Gleice Uzur, and cellist Viktor Uzur.
Bonneville Chamber Music Series | Memoirs from Florence
Val A. Browning Center | Allred Theater
September 17, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Program includes:
Tchaikovsky | Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Ruggero Allifranchini & Rebecca McFaul, violin | Yvonne Lam & Bradley Ottesen, viola | Suren Bagratini & Viktor Uzur, cello
BCMF’s 20th anniversary series continues with Memoirs from Florence. A rare gathering of distinguished artists presents Tchaikovsky's celebrated String Sextet and other chamber masterpieces. International soloists and acclaimed performers unite for an unforgettable evening of musical storytelling.
Bonneville Chamber Music Series | finale forte
Val A. Browning Center | Allred Theater
September 18, 2026 @ 7:30pm
W. A. Mozart | String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 428
Dmitri Shostakovich | Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, Op. 11
Felix Mendelssohn | String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
The BCMF final concert celebrates with the FSQ playing Mozart and the Shostakovich and Mendelssohn Octets performed by Ruggero Allifranchini, Alex Woods, Robert Waters, Rebecca McFaul – violins | Yvonne Lam, Bradley Ottesen – violas | Suren Bagratini, Anne Francis Bayless - celli
FSQ at USU Series | The Viola Burns Longer
September 24, 2026 @ 7:30pm
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Kenji Bunch | The 3 G’s
Kenji Bunch | We’d Better Call for Backup (for 2 Violas)
Kenji Bunch | The Viola Burns Longer
Antonín Dvořák | String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97
With guest artists Kenji Bunch, composer & viola, Toby Appel, viola, and Monica Ohuchi, piano
The FSQ at USU 2026/27 Series opens by putting the viola—chamber music’s beloved middle voice—squarely in the spotlight. Composer and violist Kenji Bunch joins the quartet alongside his longtime mentor, renowned violist Toby Appel, for a program full of wit, virtuosity, warmth, and glorious low strings. Featuring three works by Bunch and culminating in Dvořák’s exuberant E-flat Major String Quintet, this is a celebration of an instrument that may not always demand center stage—but, as it turns out, burns longer.
Chamber Music Concerts | FSQ with Toby Appel, viola & Monica Ohuchi, piano
SOU Music Recital Hall | 450 S Mountain Ave Ashland, OR 97520
October 2, 2026 @ 7:30pm
W. A. Mozart | String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 428
Kenji Bunch | The Viola Burns Longer
Antonin Dvorak | String Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 97
Chamber Music Concerts presents the Fry Street Quartet with Toby Appel, Viola and Monica Ohuchi, Piano
The Jewel Box Series | Northeastern Illinois University
NEIU Recital Hall | 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave, Parking Lot F, Chicago, IL | Tickets
November 20, 2026 @ 7:30 p. m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet in E-Flat Major, K. 428
Leos Janacek | String Quartet No. 1, the “Kreutzer Sonata”
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
Utah State Symphony Orchestra with Rebecca McFaul & Bradley Ottesen
Daines Concert Hall | Utah State University
December 1, 2026 @ 7:30 p. m.
W. A. Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E-Flat Major, K.V. 364
FSQ at USU Series | When You Think You Can’t Go Further
February 9, 2027 @ 7:30pm
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Georges Enescu | String Octet, Op. 7
With guest artists Will Hagen & Laura Ha, violins; Andrea Ashdown, viola; and Walter Haman, cello
What can you program after late Beethoven?
The FSQ continues its journey toward a complete cycle of Beethoven’s late string quartets in fall 2028 with Op. 127—a work of extraordinary spaciousness, intimacy, and invention. And then: Enescu. Written when the composer was only nineteen, his monumental String Octet seems to ask how much farther eight string players can possibly go. Sweeping, youthful, virtuosic, and almost orchestral in scale, it is one of the rare works audacious enough to follow late Beethoven.
Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project | Overland Park, KS
Polsky Theatre, Midwest Trust Center, Johnson County Community College
February 13, 2027 @ 7:30pm
A pioneering collaboration with physicist Dr. Robert Davies, The Crossroads Project blended original music, science communication, and visual media to explore the realities of global sustainability. Featuring scores by Laura Kaminsky and Libby Larsen, and imagery by painter Rebecca Allan and photographer Garth Lenz, the project toured nationally and was featured in the quartet’s album The Crossroads Project and accompanying film Rising Tide. Together, these works invited audiences to move from understanding to action.
NOVA Libby Gardner Series: Intersections
Libby Gardner Concert Hall
February 21, 2027 @ 3:00pm
Claude Debussy | Ariettes oubliées (1887)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, K. 428
Igor Stravinsky | Octet (1923, revised 1952)
Steve Reich | Mallet Quartet (2013)
Drawing connections between the classical, neoclassical and minimalist styles of music, this program features Minimalist icon Steve Reich’s hypnotic Mallet Quartet for four percussionists, alongside Debussy’s gorgeous Ariettes oublieés sung by NOVA favorite Celena Shafer and Mozart’s lyrical String Quartet in Eb performed by NOVA Quartet-in-Residence The Fry Street Quartet, and Stravinsky’s neoclassical masterpiece Octet for brass and winds, featuring principals from the Utah Symphony.
Morrison Artist Series | San Francisco State University
Knuth Hall | SFSU campus
February 27, 2027 @ 7:00pm
Program:
Leos Janacek | String Quartet No. 1, the “Kreutzer Sonata”
Laura Kaminsky | Rising Tide
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
The FSQ’s Bay Area Residency
with PaCO (Palo Alto Chamber Orchestras), the Castillero Orchestra Program, and San Francisco State University
Events TBA
February 26 – March 7, 2027
NOVA Gallery Series: Encounters with Beethoven and Green
Featuring Fry Street Quartet; Michael Pape, percussion
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
March 21, 2027 @ 3:00pm
Kaija Saariaho | Ciel Étoile (1999)
Brittany J. Green | Lead me Home (2021)
Brittany J. Green | i get out. (2023) for double bass and electronics
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
This composer portrait concert pairs Beethoven’s late string quartet in E-flat major, op. 127 with recent works by American composer Brittany J. Green, whom NOVA is co-commissioning for its upcoming 50th anniversary! Featuring the Fry Street Quartet, NOVA’s quartet-in-residence.
FSQ at USU Series | Memory, Longing, and What Extends Beyond
March 26, 2027 @ 7:30pm
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
Brittany J. Green | Lead Me Home (2021)
Aakash Mittal | Living Memory for string quartet & film (2026)
Ludwig van Beethoven | String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
The FSQ@USU season closes with three works that reach toward memory, home, loss, and what endures.
Brittany J. Green’s Lead Me Home, for strings and electronics, draws upon Thomas Dorsey’s hymn “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” allowing fragments of familiar material to emerge through shimmering strings and ethereal electronic sound. Aakash Mittal’s Living Memory, written for the Fry Street Quartet in response to the creatures and habitats of the Sundarbans, returns in a newly expanded version incorporating film, heard here for the first time.
At the center of Beethoven’s Op. 132 lies one of the most profound movements in the quartet repertoire: his Heiliger Dankgesang—a “Holy Song of Thanksgiving” written after recovering from serious illness. Across centuries and vastly different sound worlds, these three works listen backward and forward at once, asking what we carry, what we lose, and what might extend beyond us.
Fry Street Chamber Musical Festival Concerts
FSCMF Faculty Concert Series
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall
July 9, 2027 @ 7:30 pm
July 12, 2027 @ 7:30 pm
July 15, 2027 @ 7:30 pm