Napa Valley Chamber Music Festival - Haydn, Mozart, and a Pair of Pulitzer Prize-winners

Pulitzer Prizes have gone to Kevin Puts (2012) and Aaron J. Kernis (1998) and MITV has commissioned works from them both! Kevin’s In At The Eye (2016) is a set six love songs set to William Butler Yeats poetry. Aaron’s single movement for string quartet is a beautiful elegy to loss. We end with a piano quartet, the genre that Mozart “invented” with his Piano Quartet in G minor.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C Major, op 20, no 2

The Isidore Quartet
Adrian Steele, violin
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, viola  
Joshua McClendon, cello

Kevin Puts (b.1972)
In At the Eye for baritone, violin, viola, flute and piano

Adrian Steele, violin
Joshua McClendon, cello
Viviana Guzman, flute
Eric Zivian, piano
Daniel Belcher, baritone

Aaron J. Kernis (b. 1960)
For Those We Have Lost

David Bowlin, violin
Phoenix Avalon, violin
Devin Moore, viola  
Tanya Tomkins, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Piano Quartet in G Minor, K.478

Owen Dalby, violin
Maiya Papach, viola
Tanya Tomkins, cello
Eric Zivian, piano

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