Thank you, Adriane Post, Johanna Novom, Kyle Miller & Paul Dwyer for your spectacular performance last night! All of the guests enjoyed their interactions with you – before and after you knocked their socks off with your artistry. Thank you for interacting with them with your explanations of your pieces and instruments. You would have made the old philosopher Goethe proud – you truly demonstrated that chamber music is really a “conversation among very intelligent people!” WELL DONE!!
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Dr. Nancy Church and Charles Jett are hosting the Diderot String Quartet on Wednesday, March 20, at 7PM. Attendance by invitation only. Contact us if you want to receive an invitation.
Diderot String Quartet—named after the eighteenth-century French philosopher and Boccherini enthusiast Denis Diderot—brings a fresh approach to works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diderot came together in 2012 after having first met at Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School. The four musicians share a background in historical performance and a passion for the string quartet genre; they found the thrill of exploring the quartet repertoire on period instruments to be irresistible.
Recent and upcoming engagements for Diderot String Quartet include Friends of Chamber Music Vancouver and Early Music Vancouver, Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (NE), Music Before 1800 (New York City), Chamber Music Corvallis (Corvallis, OR), Early Music Society of the Islands (Victoria, BC), Music in the Somerset Hills (Bernardsville, NJ), Hemet Community Concert Association (Hemet, CA), Academy of Early Music (Ann Arbor), Fullerton Friends of Music (Fullerton, CA), Electric Earth Concerts (Peterborough, NH), Bitterroot Baroque (Hamilton, MT), St. Cecilia Music Series (Austin, TX) and the Morgan Library (New York City). Diderot also enters a fourth year as Quartet in Residence at the Washington National Cathedral, and in Spring 2019 collaborates with conductor-harpsichordist Harry Bicket.