Pro Arte Quartet

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courtesy Mead-Witter School of Music

Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Ensemble Series. $20 GA/Students free (ticket required).

media release: David Perry, violin

Suzanne Beia, violin

Sally Chisholm, viola

Parry Karp, violoncello

Performing works by Amy Beach, Kevin Puts, and Franz Schubert. With special guest Conor Nelson, flute.

The Pro Arte Quartet is one of the world’s most distinguished string quartets. Founded by conservatory students in Brussels in 1912, it became one of the most celebrated ensembles in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and was named Court Quartet to the Queen of Belgium. Its world reputation blossomed in 1919 when the quartet began the first of many tours that enticed notable composers such as Milhaud, Honegger, Martin, and Casella to write new works for the ensemble. In addition, Bartók dedicated his fourth quartet to the PAQ (1927), and in 1936 PAQ premiered Barber’s Op. 11 quartet, with the now-famous “Adagio for Strings” as its slow movement.