Alumni Spotlight: Valerie Welbanks -- Ligeti Quartet plays Bartók 5 скачать в хорошем качестве

Alumni Spotlight: Valerie Welbanks -- Ligeti Quartet plays Bartók 5

Still accepting applications for MPM's 36th Season! Did you know that Music at Port Milford alumni have gone on to play in internationally celebrated chamber ensembles, including the Pacifica Quartet, Linden String Quartet, Catalyst Quartet, PubliQuartet, Rolston Quartet, and Ligeti Quartet? Today, we're featuring cellist Valerie Welbanks, who discovered her love of string quartets as a 12 year old at Music at Port Milford. Originally from Ottawa, Val continued her musical studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec and the Royal Academy of Music in London. While at the Royal Academy, she formed the Ligeti Quartet - a group that has been at the forefront of modern and contemporary music for over a decade. Val shared this recording with us of the Ligeti performing Bartok's 5th string quartet ("on the old end of our repertoire"), with guest first violinist Christopher Jones. They recorded this movement at a church in Hay-on-Wye - a town noted for having more bookshops per capita than any other city in the world. Thumbnail photo by Cathy Pyle