FIU music presents the Amernet String Quartet

The FIU School of Music presents an Amernet String Quartet concert Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m., in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus.

This concert is the culminating event of a four-day string seminar at FIU. The Amernet String Quartet, in residence at FIU, will be joined by world-renowned guest artists.

“This concert will showcase the level of artistry that the Amernet String Quartet brings to every event in which they participate, as well as that of the world-renowned guest artists who are also performing. We are extremely fortunate to have the quartet in residence at FIU. Their presence has had a large impact on the music scene and on the students in this region,” says Orlando Jacinto García, chair of music.

The program will begin with the Bach Double Concerto for two violins, featuring Zvi Zeitlin from the Eastman School of Music and Robert Davidovici, artist-in-residence at FIU. James Tocco, highly acclaimed pianist, and an Eminent Scholar in Chamber Music at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, will join the Amernet String Quartet for the powerful Franck Piano Quintet. The program will also include Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence” for string sextet, in which Amernet will be joined by guests Chauncey Patterson, former violist of the Miami String Quartet and the Fine Arts Quartet, and Marc Johnson, cellist with the Vermeer Quartet.

A string seminar will be held prior to the concert, including master classes given by all of the performers. The seminar will be held in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Feb. 13–16. For information on the concert or master classes, please visit http://carta.fiu.edu/stringseminar.aspx or call 305-348-0496.