Program

From the Colburn School: Quartet Integra

Kyoka Misawa, violin

Rintaro Kikuno, violin

Itsuki Yamamoto, viola

Ye Un Park, cello

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String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 ‘Fifths”

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732 - 1809)

Allegro

Andante o più tosto allegretto

Menuetto. Allegro ma non troppo

Vivace assai

Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9

ANTON WEBERN (1883 - 1945)

            Mässig (moderate)

            Leicht bewegt (lightly moving)

            Ziemlich fliessend (rather flowing)

            Sehr langsam (very slow)

            Ausserst langsam (extremely slow)

            Fliessend (flowing)

INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 3 in a minor, Op. 41, No. 3

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 - 1856)

Andante espressivo - Allegro molto moderato

Assai agitato

Adagio molto

Finale. Allegro molto vivace

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Quartet Integra

Quartet Integra has been performing since 2015. Its members studied with Kazuhide Isomura and Nobuko Yamazaki at Toho Gakuen School of Music and are currently part of the Chamber Ensemble-in-Residence Program at the Colburn School, where they study with Martin Beaver, Clive Greensmith, and Tatjana Masurenko. Among the quartet’s many awards are Second Prize and the Audience Award at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition; First Prize at the 2021 Bartók World Competition; and First Prize, the Beethoven Prize, and the Grand Prix Award at the 2019 Akiyoshidai Music Competition. They were also awarded the “Banca Monte dei Paschi” prize from Clive Greensmith at the 2021 Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and more awards at the Kirishima International Music Festival. Quartet Integra have performed at the Chigiana Summer Festival, Crans Montana Classics, and Kirishima International Music Festival, among others, and have performed and collaborated with artists including Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Kazuhide Isomura, Shigeo Neriki, and Kazuhide Isomura. They are supported by a grant from the Matsuo Foundation.

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