Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts Season 22/23
Opening Concert, September 1, 2022
Amernet String Quartet
Yuriy Bekker, violin
Clip: Charles Martin Loeffler String Quartet (one movement)
(1861 - 1935)
The open concert of the 22/22 season began with the acclaimed Amernet String Quartet, FIU’s Artist-in-Residence Ensemble, along with distinguished artists from South Carolina - mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and violinist Yuriy Bekker- for an evening of works of Mozart, Loeffler, and Robert Xavier Rodriguez.
This concert is made possible in part by the City of Miami Beach.
Location: The Jewish Museum - FIU
Amernet String Quartet:
Misha Vitenson, violin
Avi Nagin, violin
Michael Klotz, viola
Jason Calloway, cello
Praised for their “intelligence” and “immensely satisfying” playing by the New York Times, the Amernet String Quartet has garnered recognition as one of today’s exceptional string quartets and are Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University in Miami. Their sound has been called “complex” but with an “old world flavor.” Strad Magazine described the Amernet as “…a group of exceptional technical ability.”The Amernet’s performance schedule has taken the quartet across the Americas and to Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They have collaborated with many of today’s most prominent artists and ensembles including the Tokyo and Ying quartets as well as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Robert deMaine, Roberto Diaz, Gary Hoffman, Ida Kavafian, Anthony McGill, Sherrill Milnes, Michael Tree.Internationally, the quartet has appeared at major festivals around the world, including Cervantino, San Miguel de Allende, Aviv (Israel), and Colima (Mexico), while in Germany a critic commented that their playing was “fascinating, with flawless intonation, extraordinary beauty of sound, virtuosic brilliance and homogeneity of ensemble...