MARLBORO — Marlboro College's Music for a Sunday Afternoon series features a concert by the award-winning Heath Quartet on Sunday, April 6, at 3 p.m. in Ragle Hall.
They will perform a program of Beethoven, Bartók, and Mendelssohn as the kickoff of a debut tour in the United States that includes Carnegie Hall.
The Heath Quartet (www.heathquartet.com) are Oliver Heath and Cerys Jones on violin, Gary Pomeroy on viola, and Christopher Murray on cello. All four are faculty members at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
The quartet was founded in 2002 at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Rowland and Alasdair Tait, with whom the musicians continued their studies at the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid.
Recipients of the 2012 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists Award and the 2012 Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ensemble Prize, the quartet has performed at many major festivals and venues throughout Europe.
Here they will perform Beethoven's String Quartet in B Flat (Op. 18, No. 6), Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 17), and Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 2 in A minor (Op. 13).