SPRING 2024 EVENTS

Chamber Series Concert: Schubertiade

Join the HSQ for our last Chamber Series Concert of the 2023-2024 Season! Inspired by the legendary gatherings of Franz Schubert, The Haven String Quartet transports us back to the days when Schubert's popular soirées were all the craze.

Sat. May 11th, 2024 - 7:30 PM

Unitarian Society of New Haven

700 Hartford Tpke., Hamden, CT

USNH & Music Haven Presents: Schubert Extravaganza

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Sun. May 19th, 2024 - 4:00 PM

Unitarian Society of New Haven

700 Hartford Tpke., Hamden, CT

Playing Images

The HSQ explores the connections between music and visual art through this popular and long-running series, produced in collaboration with Jessica Sack and the Yale University Art Gallery, with artwork by Joseph Stella

Wed. May 22nd, 2024 - 12:30 PM

Yale University Art Gallery

1111 Chapel St. New Haven, CT

The Haven String Quartet: After Dark

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Thurs. May 23rd, 2024 - 7:00 PM

Armada Brewing Co.

190 River St. New Haven, CT


The Haven String Quartet: Special Performance of Playing Images [For Teachers - RSVP Required]
Jun
8

The Haven String Quartet: Special Performance of Playing Images [For Teachers - RSVP Required]

Special Performance of Playing Images is on Thursday, June 8th from 4-5pm for teachers.

Playing Images: An Exploration of Music and Art connects close listening to music with close looking at art. The session will be facilitated by Jessica Sack, Curator of Public Education at the Yale University Art Gallery, and Yaira Matyakubova, Artistic Director and violinist from Music Haven.  

The session will take place in the galleries of the Yale University Art Gallery with the Haven String Quartet performing.

To register, please email alana@musichavenct.org. Note that space is limited.

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The Haven String Quartet: In-Person Program, Playing Images
May
31

The Haven String Quartet: In-Person Program, Playing Images

Join us for a performance by the Haven String Quartet, accompanied by conversation, close looking at images, and a question-and-answer session. This program is part of an ongoing series that encourages participants to reflect on the experience of listening to music while looking at art. Jessica Sack, the Jan and Frederick Mayer Curator of Public Education, is joined in conversation by Yaira Matyakubova, Artistic Director of Music Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Generously sponsored by the Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.

Space is limited. 

https://artgallery.yale.edu/calendar/events/person-program-playing-images

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HSQ Chamber Series IV: Three Meditations
May
20

HSQ Chamber Series IV: Three Meditations

The Haven String Quartet presents its final concert of the 2022-2023 season, two meditative explorations from opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum. Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor is renowned for its soaring lyrical melodies and the Hungarian dance of the Finale. Raven Chacon, by contrast, finds new sounds through unusual techniques within the medium of the string quartet to express a narrative with echoes of traditional Navajo mythology. All convey depth and profundity through their individual expressiveness.

Purchase tickets here: https://bit.ly/3nzdVSx

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HSQ Family Concert at Music Haven: Three Meditations
May
19

HSQ Family Concert at Music Haven: Three Meditations

The Haven String Quartet presents its final concert of the 2022-2023 season, two meditative explorations from opposite ends of the stylistic spectrum. Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor is renowned for its soaring lyrical melodies and the Hungarian dance of the Finale. Raven Chacon, by contrast, finds new sounds through unusual techniques within the medium of the string quartet to express a narrative with echoes of traditional Navajo mythology. All convey depth and profundity through their individual expressiveness.

This concert is for Music Haven students and families only!

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Up Close with Haven String Quartet
Apr
18

Up Close with Haven String Quartet

The Haven String Quartet is joined by Music Haven Resident Musician Patrick Doane and pianist Andrius Zlabys in the first Chamber Series Concert of 2023 with a beautiful and evocative program featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 80. Join us as we explore these three magnificent pieces of music, from Prokofiev’s dark and brooding Violin Sonata No. 1 to Fauré’s Piano Quintet, a work filled with mesmerizing and haunting writing for both strings and piano. Finally, George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for composition, dedicates his breathtaking Lyric for Strings to his grandmother, a formerly enslaved person, who died shortly before its completion.

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HSQ Chamber Series III: Ethereal Explorations
Apr
6

HSQ Chamber Series III: Ethereal Explorations

The Haven String Quartet is joined by Music Haven Resident Musician Patrick Doane and pianist Andrius Zlabys in the first Chamber Series Concert of 2023 with a beautiful and evocative program featuring Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quintet No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 89, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 80. Join us as we explore these three magnificent pieces of music, from Prokofiev’s dark and brooding Violin Sonata No. 1 to Fauré’s Piano Quintet, a work filled with mesmerizing and haunting writing for both strings and piano. Finally, George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for composition, dedicates his breathtaking Lyric for Strings to his grandmother, a formerly enslaved person, who died shortly before its completion.

Purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/503958462327

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