Recipients of the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the Cavani String Quartet, who have been described by The Washington Post as “completely engrossing, powerful and elegant” will perform in their Texas premiere at TCU. The evening's program will include works by Haydn, Szymanowski and Brahms.
Formed in 1984, the Cavani Quartet was appointed Quartet-in-Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1988. Their recent appearances include Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Ambassador Series in Los Angeles, Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam, and Festival de L'Epau in France.
Special guest performer is internationally acclaimed pianist and TCU alumna Laurana Rice Mitchelmore, for whom this biennial series is dedicated. A native of Plano, Mrs. Mitchelmore was a piano student at TCU in the early 1970s and went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York City and the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts. She has appeared extensively in the United States, Europe, and North Africa. She has worked with such notable artists as Frederica von Stade, Jean Cox, William Warfield, and Texans Reid Bunger and William Blankenship.
