HSU Faculty Artist Series: Arcata Bay String Quartet
Even in a tiny jewel of a place like Humboldt County the stars align and a new artistic force emerges. Please join the members of the Arcata Bay String Quartet for their inaugural concert on the HSU campus on Saturday evening, September 16th. This Faculty Artist Series concert will feature HSU music faculty violinists Cindy Moyer and Karen Davy, community viola player Sherry Hanson, and faculty cellist Garrick Woods. The first half of the concert will include classic repertoire, including the Quartet in G Major, Op. 64, No. 4 by the "father of the string quartet" Franz Joseph Haydn, and Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13, a much more dramatic early quartet by Felix Mendelssohn that is modeled on the late quartets of Beethoven. This is accessible music for everyone and could serve as an excellent introduction to anyone curious about live music performance. The second half of the concert will include quartets by two living American composers. This is relatively new music, but still very accessible and not difficult to listen to or to understand. The Ken Benshoof quartet "sweeter than wine (2015)" is a jazz influenced work composed for the Kronos Quartet's "50 for the Future" series. More jazz influence can be heard in the folk music inspired work of Gwyneth Walker, specifically her "Traveling Songs for String Quartet," with familiar titles like Sweet Betsy from Pike, Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd, Coming Home, and Arkansas Traveler. The players of the ABSQ bring together formidable musicianship and performance experience. HSU Music Department Chair Cindy Moyer is an Eastman School of Music trained violinist who regularly performs solo, orchestral, and chamber music, in addition to being a teacher, adjudicator, and clinician. Karen Davy has played and taught violin and viola in Humboldt County for nearly twenty years. She has performed with the Humboldt and Eureka Symphonies, Symphony of the Redwoods, and North State Symphony. Both violinists have been teachers at the Sequoia and Humboldt Chamber Music Workshops. Sherry Hanson is a retired elementary school teacher from Fortuna who is an active participant in the north coast chamber music scene. She is Principal Viola in the Eureka Symphony and also plays in the North State Symphony and the Symphony of the Redwoods. Garrick Woods is the HSU Music Department's newest faculty member, with degrees from the University of Arizona and the University of Utah. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays and teaches cello and bass at HSU, and is the conductor of Humboldt Symphony. Saturday, September 16 at 7:00 p.m. in Fulkerson Recital Hall. $10 General, $5 Senior/Child, $5 for HSU students with ID.
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