ORION STRING QUARTET, MANNES COLLEGE OF MUSIC'S QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE,
TO PERFORM ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 AT 8 PM

(New York, NY – September 13, 2002) Mannes College of Music's Quartet-in-Residence, the Orion String Quartet, will present a free concert on Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 8 p.m. at the Mannes Concert Hall. The program will feature Beethoven's String Quartet in F minor, Opus 95, No. 11 (1810), György Kurtág's String Quartet, Opus 1 (1959), and Beethoven's String Quartet in Eb major, Opus 127, No. 12. For further information, call the Mannes College of Music at 212-496-8524. Mannes College of Music is located at 150 West 85th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues) in NYC. (Take the #1 subway to 86th Street.) The Orion String Quartet's next concert at Mannes will be on Friday, December 6, 2002 at 8 p.m.

Hailed for its exquisite artistry, technical mastery and astute approach to concert programming, the Orion String Quartet is one of the most admired chamber ensembles on the international music scene. Currently celebrating its 15th Anniversary season, the Quartet has expanded its role with diverse projects ranging from collaborations with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company to performances of the complete Beethoven Quartets in a five-concert series over the span of a long weekend. The members of the Quartet - violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips (brothers who share the first violin chair equally), violist Steven Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy - have worked with such legendary figures as Pablo Casals, Rudolph Serkin, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, as well as the Budapest, Vegh, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. The Orion continues to perform in the world's leading concert halls and serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Mannes College of Music.

In celebration of its 15th Anniversary season, the Orion String Quartet performs three concerts at Lincoln Center in a series that highlights the Quartet's long-term musical friendships with guest artists Pinchas Zukerman, Peter Serkin, Susanne Mentzer, Richard Stoltzman, Paula Robison and Michael Tree. The 2002-2003 season continues with an extraordinary collaboration that began in 2001-2002 with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company with performances in Amsterdam, Paris, Boston, Cleveland, Santa Barbara, Ann Arbor, Tucson, Madison, WI, and Berkeley. Other U.S. Quartet performances include Philadelphia and San Antonio, with international dates in Toronto, Hamburg and T_bingen, Germany.

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Mannes College of Music, founded in 1916, is one of the world's major conservatories of music. A division of New School University, Mannes offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs, as well as a Professional Studies Diploma program. Notable alumni from Mannes include soprano Frederica von Stade, pianists Murray Perahia and Richard Goode, and conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta and Julius Rudel. Joel Lester is Dean of the College. For further information on Mannes, call 212-580-0210 or go to the Web site at www.mannes.edu

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