Symphony hosts Fry Street Quartet

The Glacier Symphony and Chorale will host a special one-night concert featuring the Fry Street Quartet Sept. 7.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center.

The quartet hails from Logan, Utah, where they hold a teaching residency at the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Founded in Chicago in 1997, the Fry Street Quartet’s name was derived from the location of their first rehearsal space in the Chicago neighborhood once ruled by Al Capone.

The group has received rave reviews as prizewinners at the Yellow Springs Competition and the Banff International String Quartet Competition.

In 2000 the quartet traveled to Israel to participate in the International Encounters Chamber Music Seminar, where they studied with Isaac Stern. Stern then invited the quartet to the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop in New York City and subsequently arranged for the quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2001.

Their concert repertoire will include Beethoven’s “String Quartet in C Minor, Opus 18 No. 4,” followed by a work by Shostokovich, “String Quartet No. 7 in F-Sharp Minor, Opus 108.” The concert will conclude with “String Quartet in C Minor Opus 51, No. 1” by Johannes Brahms.

Tickets for the concert are priced at $18 for adults and $15 for seniors. In keeping with the symphony’s mission of making music more accessible to the community, all youths through grade 12 will be admitted free of charge.

Purchase tickets online at www.gscmusic.org or by calling 257-3241 or at the venue the day of the show.

As part of their visit to Flathead Valley, the Fry Street Quartet will offer a free master class for local strings students from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 8 at the First Presbyterian Church of Whitefish.

Strings students through college age who want to attend the master class need to pre-register as soon as possible by calling 257-3241.