University of Illinois artists-in-residents, The Jupiter String Quartet, will give a virtual concert August 6th at 6:30 p.m. Featured in the concert program will be the world premier of composer Michi Wiancko’s To Unpathed Waters, Uncharted Shores, “a new commission for them by Bay Chamber Concerts with the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, alongside Beethoven’s monumental String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. The new work was commissioned in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of Bay Chamber Concerts as well as Maine’s Bicentennial, and is paired with Beethoven’s music in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth.”
The concert will be livestreamed at www.baychamberconcerts.org.
Top photo of Jupiter String Quartet by Elle Logan.
