The Avalon Quartet is the featured group this week at the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck. They serve as the quartet-in-residence at Northern Illinois University, a position formerly held by the esteemed Vermeer Quartet.
Equipped with a masterful knowledge of music history and theory, violist Anthony Devroye discusses the three works the Avalon Quartet will perform in Saugatuck. They are: Franz Joseph Haydn's String Quartet Op 76/3 'Emperor,' Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 Op 131, and the String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters,' Leos Janacek.
A new album, Illuminations was praised by the New York Times, which singled out the "warmth and tenderness" of their playing.
