String Celebration brings together eight masterful performers for a program that showcases the breadth, beauty, and bravura of chamber music for strings.

Dvořák’s Terzetto in C Major offers a nostalgic shift in scale and timbre. Scored for two violins and viola, it was originally intended for informal “musicking” at home - though its technical demands soon surpassed its amateur origins. With graceful interplay and lyrical warmth, Terzetto weaves a heartfelt musical conversation.

For our grand Finale, all eight musicians join forces for Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major, a work of astonishing brilliance and youthful exuberance. Composed at just sixteen, the Octet merges symphonic grandeur with intricate precision, culminating in an electrifying fugue that brings Season Seventeen to a thrilling close.

‍

MUSTONEN Nonetto II

‍

DVOŘÁK Terzetto in C Major

‍

MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major