Cassatt String Quartet performance at Texas Tech in Lubbock

January 29 performance is part of the long-running Cassatt in the Basin program with guest artist Mark Morton on bass

Community program "Cassatt in the Basin" brings the quartet to West Texas twice a year for concerts and music education events in Odessa and Midland

"an extraordinary quartet” – New York Times

On January 29 at 2 pm, the Cassatt String Quartet performs at Kent R. Hance Chapel on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Admission is free, details are here.

The New York-based quartet brings a special program to Lubbock, performing quartets by Mozart and Dorothy Rudd Moore. Mark Morton, professor of double bass at Texas Tech University, joins them for Giovanni Bottesini's "Gran Quintet for strings".

The concert is one of the events of Cassatt in the Basin. Since 2005, the quartet's bi-annual residencies in West Texas have enriched the lives of adults and students in the community through concerts, workshops and other music events across the region.

The January 2023 visit by the Cassatt String Quartet includes a multitude of activities in Odessa and Midland, including:

Concerts at at Manor Park Retirement Home (1/25) and Heartland Home Assisted Living (1/28)
Coachings and side-by-sides with students at Odessa and Permian High Schools, and Compass Academy
Open rehearsal at Brookdale Senior Living (1/26)
Family program at the Ector County Library (1/30)

A full schedule of events is at CassattInTheBasin.com/Events.

Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment,” the Cassatt String Quartet has performed to critical acclaim across the world since its founding in 1985, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Tanglewood Music Center, the Kennedy Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Centro National de las Artes, Maeda Hall, and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. The group’s discography includes over forty recordings, spanning the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels – including three discs that have been named by Alex Ross to his “10 Best Classical Recordings” feature in The New Yorker Magazine.

The Cassatt Quartet’s upcoming projects include major performances and recordings of works by Tania León, Dylan Schneider, Shirish Korde, and Daniel S. Godfrey; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain.

The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.

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