7:00PM, Saturday, September 27, 2025
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
HAYDN:String Quartet Op. 50 no. 6
SCHUMANN:Piano Quintet Op. 44
MENDELSSOHN:Octet for Strings Op. 20
Benjamin Beilman,violin
Maria Ioudenitch,violin
Lawrence Dutton,viola
Dmitri Atapine,cello
Hyeyeon Park,piano
Lucy Wang,violin, Viano String Quartet
Hao Zhou,violin, Viano String Quartet
Aiden Kane,viola, Viano String Quartet
Tate Zawadiuk,cello, Viano String Quartet
The Friends opens its Fiftieth Anniversary Season in grand style, celebrating the enduring power of chamber music. On stage at the Kauffman Center are soloists Benjamin Beilman and Maria Ioudenitch, former Emerson Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton, the Viano String Quartet — 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients — and Artistic Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park. The program begins with a Haydn Op. 50 string quartet — honoring both the “father” of chamber music and our Fiftieth Season — followed by Schumann’s groundbreaking Piano Quintet. It concludes with Mendelssohn’s Octet, premiered 200 years ago and still dazzling as a pinnacle of the repertoire.
Dmitri Atapine
cello
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Hyeyeon Park
piano
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Benjamin Beilman
violin
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Maria Ioudenitch
violin
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Lawrence Dutton
viola
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Viano Quartet
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