Access to Art’s Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Festival will present the Daedalus String Quartet live at Cape May United Methodist Church, 635 Washington Street, Cape May, on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m.
This is the second of four concerts given this season. They will perform Haydn’s Six String Quartets, Opus 20.
The Quartet was honored with Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award and Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Award in 2007.
The Daedalus Quartet was named by Carnegie Hall to participate in the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) Rising Stars program, through which it made debuts during the 2004-05 season.
The Daedalus Quartet has been Quartet in Residence at Columbia University since 2005 and at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006.
Major engagements in the United States have included Great Performers at Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
They have been recipients twice of educational residency grants from Chamber Music America. The Daedalus has won particular acclaim for performances of contemporary music, including works by Elliott Carter, George Perle, Gyorgy Kurtag, and Gyorgy Ligeti.
The members of the quartet hold degrees from Juilliard, Curtis, the Cleveland Institute, and Harvard University.
Tickets for the concert are $20 for adults, $l5 for seniors, and $l0 for students. Call 609-465-3963 for tickets.
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