Thank You for Your Support
B Major $5000 +
E Major $2500 +
A Major $1000 +
D Major $500 +
G Major $250 +
C Major $100 +
Please make your donation checks payable to:
ASU Foundation
Sonoran Chamber Music Series (memo box)
Mail to: Lori Pollock, School of Music
P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
For more information, contact:
Shawn.Richards@asu.edu or 480.965.8985

The Sonoran Chamber Music Series
ASU School of Music

2017-2018 season

Katzin Concert Hall
Sunday, February 4, 2018

January 21, 2018 - Piano Trio

2:00 p.m.

February 4, 2018 - Arianna String Quartet
March 18, 2018 - Piano Quartet

Arianna String Quartet
John McGrosso, Violin
Julia Sakharova, Violin
Joanna Mendoza, Viola
Kurt Baldwin, Cello
Tom Landschoot, Cello

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Program
String Quartet No. 2
"Intimate Letters"

Leos Janacek
(1854-1928)

Andante - Con moto - Allegro
Adagio - Vivace
Moderato - Andante - Adagio
Allegro - Andante - Adagio
Intermission
String Quintet in C Major
Op. 163, D. 956

Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)

Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo: Presto - Trio: Andante sostenuto
Allegretto

About The Artists
Hailed for their outstanding musicianship, the Arianna String
Quartet has firmly established itself as one of America's finest
chamber ensembles. Their performances have been praised for
"tonal warmth, fastidious balance ... expressive vitality" (Chicago
Tribune) and "emotional commitment and fluent virtuosity,"
(Pretoria News, South Africa). Formed in 1992, the ASQ garnered
national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the Fischoff
Chamber Music Competition, First Prize in both the Coleman and
Carmel Chamber Music Competitions, and were Laureates in the
Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.
The Arianna Quartet has appeared throughout North America,
South America, Europe and Asia, with frequent visits to Brazil and
South Africa. They have collaborated with many of the world's
finest musicians, including members of the Vermeer, Tokyo,
Cleveland and Juilliard Quartets, and their live performances have
been heard on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," and
"Live from Music Mountain", which broadcasts to 125 stations in
the U.S. and to 35 countries. The ASQ has recorded for Albany
Records and Urtext Digital Classics, and has a long-term contract
with Centaur Records. Their most recent release of the two string
quartets of Janacek, which has already received critical acclaim, is
now available. ("These performances of the Arianna String Quartet
demonstrate how technical excellence, in alliance with imagination
and the human heart, can come to create something truly
transcendent." - Fanfare Magazine)
Celebrating their 25th Season, highlights for 2016-17 also include
return trips to Brazil for the FEMUSC Festival in Jaragua do Sul, the
Barra Mansa Music Festival, and concerts in Rio de Janeiro, as well
as live performances on Chicago's WFMT radio, returns to the
Madeline Island Music Camp (WI) and Credo Festival, the
completion of their recordings of the complete quartets of
Beethoven for Centaur Records, and concerts throughout the
United States. The ASQ also looks forward to the continuation of
the Arianna Chamber Music Festival, in St. Louis, where they have
been full-time faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis since
2000. The Arianna Quartet is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Touhill
Performing Arts Center in St. Louis, where they present their own
series of concerts.

Praised for his expressive, virtuoso and poetic music making,
Belgian cellist Tom Landschoot enjoys an international career as a
concert and recording artist and pedagogue. He has toured North
America, Europe, South America and Asia and has appeared on
national radio and television worldwide.
His solo career started after taking a top prize at the International
Cello Competition 'Jeunesse Musicales' in 1995 in Bucharest,
Romania. He has performed with the National Orchestra of
Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Tempe Symphony,
Prima la Musica, the Symphony of the Southwest, Shieh Chien
Symphony Orchestra, Scottsdale Philharmonic, Flemish Symphony
Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony, Loja Symphony Orchestra
in Ecuador and the Orchestra of the United States Army Band and
has appeared at Barge Music, Park City, Santa Barbara, Mammoth
Lakes, Eureka, Utah, Red Rock, Park City, Manchester, Fresno,
Madeline Island, Waterloo, Killington and Texas Music Festivals.
His recordings are available on Summit, Organic, Kokopelli,
ArchiMusic and Centaur Records.
Since 2013, he is a member of the Rossetti Quartet. He has also
performed with the Takacs, Dover and Arianna Quartets and
members of the Cleveland, Vermeer, Tokyo, and Orion Quartets.
Past collaborations include Lynn Harrell, Peter Wiley, Gilbert
Kalich, Cho-Liang Lin, Martin Beaver and Martin Katz. An avid
promoter of music of our time, he has commissioned and
premiered over 20 new works for cello, including a concerto by
Dirk Brosse. Recent engagements included several concerts with
the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders with a new concerto of
Belgian composer Frank Nuyts.
Tom Landschoot has been involved in interdisciplinary public
service projects through his music, such as raising funds and
awareness for the need of building an orphanage and hospital in
Tamil Nadu, India. As part of this humanitarian project,
Landschoot was featured in a documentary film of a cellist
performing across India, integrating photography, culinary,
journalism and original music compositions.
He has served as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the
West in Santa Barbara, Castleman Quartet Program in New York,
Killington Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Foulger
International Music Festival, High Peaks, Madeline Island,
Manchester, Montecito and Texas Music Festival. Landschoot has
given master classes at conservatories and universities throughout
Asia, the U.S. and Europe and South America. His students can be
found among the ranks of national and international competition
winners, occupying principal positions in major orchestras and
teach at Universities around the U.S. and abroad.
Tom Landschoot is currently Professor of Cello at Arizona State
University, one of the top schools of music in the United States.
Prior to joining the music faculty at Arizona State University,
Landschoot taught at the University of Michigan. He is the
recipient of ASU' s prestigious Herberger College of Fine Arts
Distinguished Teaching Award. Landschoot has served on the
faculty of the Shieh Chien University in Taipei since 2008.
Tom Landschoot is the founder and the Artistic Director of the
Sonoran Chamber Music Festival
(www.sonoranchambermusic.com), as well as the President of the
Arizona Cello Society. He Performs on a cello by Tomaso Balestrieri
(1776) and a Dominique Pecatte bow.

Thank You for Your Support
B Major $5000 +
E Major $2500 +
A Major $1000 +
D Major $500 +
G Major $250 +
C Major $100 +
Please make your donation checks payable to:
ASU Foundation
Sonoran Chamber Music Series (memo box)
Mail to: Lori Pollock, School of Music
P.O. Box 870405, Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
For more information, contact:
Shawn.Richards@asu.edu or 480.965.8985

The Sonoran Chamber Music Series
ASU School of Music

2017-2018 season

Katzin Concert Hall
Sunday, February 4, 2018

January 21, 2018 - Piano Trio

2:00 p.m.

February 4, 2018 - Arianna String Quartet
March 18, 2018 - Piano Quartet

Arianna String Quartet
John McGrosso, Violin
Julia Sakharova, Violin
Joanna Mendoza, Viola
Kurt Baldwin, Cello
Tom Landschoot, Cello

Visit www.sonoranchambermusic.com
Join us "Sonoran Chamber Music" on Facebook

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