EXCEL Talk with Diderot String Quartet
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Friday, January 18 | 12:30–2:00 pm
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EXCEL Lab (Room 1279) of the Earl V Moore Building (1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor)
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Limited seating is available. Non-SMTD students who wish to attend must email smtdexcel@umich.edu no later than Tuesday 1/15 to reserve their seats, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
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University of Michigan students should RSVP here: https://umich.
joinhandshake.com/events/ 251719
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Supported in part through the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund
The EXCEL Lab is SMTD’s home base for performing arts entrepreneurship, leadership, and career services. They take a personalized, collaborative approach to professional development by first exploring students’ individual visions and goals, and then connecting them with the resources they need to thrive. This Q&A-style event will be an interactive session where SMTD students have the chance to engage directly with the quartet to discuss their varied careers in both modern and early music. Free pizza and refreshments will be provided!
Diderot String Quartet —named after the eighteenth-century French philosopher and Boccherini enthusiast Denis Diderot—brings a fresh approach to works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diderot came together in 2012 after having first met at Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School. The four musicians share a background in historical performance and a passion for the string quartet genre; they found the thrill of exploring the quartet repertoire on period instruments to be irresistible.
Recent and upcoming engagements for Diderot String Quartet include Friends of Chamber Music Vancouver and Early Music Vancouver, Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music (NE), Music Before 1800 (New York City), Chamber Music Corvallis (Corvallis, OR), Early Music Society of the Islands (Victoria, BC), Music in the Somerset Hills (Bernardsville, NJ), Hemet Community Concert Association (Hemet, CA), Academy of Early Music (Ann Arbor), Fullerton Friends of Music (Fullerton, CA), Electric Earth Concerts (Peterborough, NH), Bitterroot Baroque (Hamilton, MT), St. Cecilia Music Series (Austin, TX) and the Morgan Library (New York City). Diderot also enters a fourth year as Quartet in Residence at the Washington National Cathedral, and in Spring 2019 collaborates with conductor-harpsichordist Harry Bicket.
Diderot String Quartet has served as guest faculty for Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute, and been in residence at Aldeburgh Music in the U.K and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (New York City), and has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art and Carmel Bach Festival. Other notable events include the recent premiere of Diderot’s first commissioned work— Small Infinities by composer Lembit Beecher—and the release of the group’s recordings of Mozart and little-known composer Hyacinthe Jadin.