Serena Canin performs in Chamber Music Quad Cities' “In C" at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall -- October 27.
Sunday, October 27, 3 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall, 121 West 12th Street, Davenport IA
Their October 27 event boasting works by Chopin, Brahms, Dohnányi, and Korean composer Unsuk Chin, whose piano étude gives the program its title, Chamber Music Quad Cities opens its 2024-25 season at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall with In C, in which violinist Serena Canin and violist Lee Taylor will join CMQC co-artistic directors Gregory Sauer, on cello, and Thomas Sauer, on piano, for a thrilling exploration of that musical key.
Violinist Serena Canin was born into a family of professional musicians in New York City. She has been a member of the Brentano String Quartet since its founding in 1992, performing to critical acclaim across the world. Her group has received many honors since its inception, notably the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the 1995 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, and has held residencies at New York University, Princeton University and London’s Wigmore Hall. With the Quartet, Canin is currently in residence at the Yale School of Music.
A native of Atlanta, Georgia, violinist Lee Taylor enjoys a varied musical career involving performance, education, and administration. She is currently a member of the Atlanta Ballet and Tallahassee Symphony Orchestras, and is also a founding member of Amati Chamber Music. Taylor was a longtime member of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and has played with the Alabama Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and Colorado Music Festival, and as an administrator, she has been on staff at the Cincinnati Young Artists Chamber Music Festival and, for several years, ran her own summer-music camp for elementary violin students in Atlanta.
Praised for his versatility, cellist Gregory Sauer performs in many different musical arenas. He has appeared in recital at the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco, Vanderbilt University, Rice University, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and the Brightmusic Concert Series in Oklahoma City, among many others throughout the U.S. Sauer has performed concertos with orchestras such as the Houston Symphony, the Quad City Symphony, the Columbus (GA) Symphony, the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and the Missoula Symphony, among many others, and as a member of Trio Solis, he performed in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.
Pianist Thomas Sauer is highly sought after as soloist and chamber musician in a wide range of repertoire. Recent appearances include Carnegie Hall, St. John’s College, Oxford, and the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center, Boston, and Philadelphia. With his long-time duo partner Colin Carr, Sauer has appeared at the Wigmore Hall (London), the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), and Da Camera (Houston), in addition to performing with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress and numerous times with the Brentano String Quartet.
Chamber Music Quad Cities presents classical concert music at affordable prices in intimate settings. An outgrowth of many years of concert-giving in the Quad Cities by Davenport natives Gregory and Thomas Sauer, CMQC was founded in 1994. Together with pianist Robert Satterlee, the Sauer brothers established Chamber Music Quad Cities as a non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation in that year and began to enlist support from the community that has been consistent to this day. Violinist David Bowlin assumed the artistic direction of CMQC in 2007; upon his departure in the summer of 2017, the Sauer brothers returned as Artistic Co-Directors.
Chamber Music Quad Cities' In C will take place at Davenport's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Parish Hall on October 27, admission to the 3 p.m. concert is $20 for adults and $5 for students, and more information and tickets are available by visiting ChamberMusicQC.org.
