Pre-concert Talk

Pre-concert Talk one hour before performance at 2pm.

Clayton State music professor Dr.Kurt-Alexander Zeller gives engaging, insightful talks about the music, and often plays recorded excerpts of pieces in the program. These talks begin one hour prior to concert time for selected Strings and Vocal series concerts and are free for all ticket-holders.

Quartet Members

Sini Simonen, violin
Daniel Roberts, violin
Ruth Gibson, viola
Christopher Graves, cello

About the Artists

Showered with awards and accolades since its formation in 2011, the London-based Castalian String Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic, sophisticated young string quartets performing today.

“They’re terrific: violinists who seem capable of anything, layering a gleaming finish (often the key to a really luminous quartet sound) on a viola player with a tone like crushed velvet and a cellist who sounds like old gold” (The Spectator).

“The Castalian Quartet makes the simplest things we hear into the most important things we could ever want to hear…There were times that I simply could not believe my ears” (Calgary Herald).

“Their unique style – a powerful individuality of sound matched by an instinctive singularity of musical intention – lit up every single moment…amazing players” (The Scotsman).

Concert Program

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Quartet in D minor, K. 421

Fanny MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in E-flat major

Franz SCHUBERT: Quartet in G major, D. 887

Concert Sponsors

Spivey Hall Friends Concert Sponsors:

Bob & Linda Schnapper
Jack & Susan Bertram

Spivey Hall gratefully acknowledges the generosity of our 2021-2022 Season Sponsors:

Audience Building Roundtable,
through The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund,
through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Richard C. Owens Charitable Foundation

Patron Information

This concert welcomes patrons ages 12 and up.

This concert will be presented with a 50% capacity restriction to allow for social distancing.