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Need a little lunchtime concert break to recover from the first week of December? We sure do — please join us at @fourthchurch this Friday for our debut Musicians Club of Women Artist in Recital performance featuring works by Our Girl Grażyna B Another Halloween, another successful Rosehill Cemetery concert! 🪦👻 Thank you to everyone who filled the May Chapel last night — we hope you enjoyed our Haydn, @jahannau, @luisongolilongo , and Ligeti program. We can’t wait to play more We love Ligeti — and clearly so do you! Our Wednesday evening concert featuring his String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes is OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT! We are thrilled and delighted that so many of you will join us in the May Chapel at There are still tickets available for next week’s show at Rosehill Cemetery! They are going fast, though, so head to the link in our bio and grab yours today. 

We’re featuring our good friend Luis Fernando Amaya on this program with his 🚨World Premiere Alert 🚨 

Five Miniatures for String Quartet, written for VSQ by our good friend Jonathan Hannau, is “a quaint little piece that explores the beauty and surrealism of a lush, green forest. Also it’s got 2 CRAB CANONS bec What do you know about Papa Haydn? We polled some friends, students, and colleagues for their best Haydn facts! 

“He was divorced.” - Student, age 14 

“Stop Haydn The Truth - Classical Music Is Awesome was the name of my senior pr @carmenabelson and Pagliacci are here to remind you to grab your tickets for our return to the May Chapel of Rosehill Cemetery on Oct 30! There are just a few discounted tickets left, get yours before Oct 1 to lock in early bird pricing. Link in bio
✨✨Website Launch✨✨

www.varostringquartet.com

After a season of operating via Instagram and our newsletter, we spent the summer working on our website so all of your VSQ info is in one place! Head to the shiny new link in our bio to check it out and 🪦VSQ Returns to Rosehill Cemetery🪦

October 30, 2024 7pm 

We’re heading back to the May Chapel of Rosehill Cemetery for our second annual smorgasbord of spooky sounds! The first 20 tickets sold before Oct 1 are discounted automatically so he 📍@constellationchicago September 1, 8:30pm 

VSQ couldn’t be more thrilled to be preparing for our ✨first ever✨ world premiere, what it means to fall apart by @_kris_b_kreme_ ! Show up to Constellation on time to hear our pals @ritualaction th Looking for something to do this evening? Listen to @chicagomag and head to the @surgicalmuseumchicago for our micro-portrait concert of Grazyna Bacewicz! 

This program is an examination of the transition between Bacewicz’s middle compositiona Our final concert of the season is coming up! Join us at 7pm on June 14 at the International Museum of Surgical Science (@surgicalmuseumchicago) for a micro-portrait of Grazyna Bacewicz, one of our favorite composers. Tickets are at the link in our b Thank you for having us @bienenschoolnu to workshop Kristopher Bendrick’s new work for string quartet and vocalist at Composer Colloquium! We had a blast and we also saw this rainbow! 

It’s an important part of our mission as a group to Catch us next week at the @northbrookpl Northbrook Public Library! Reserve your free ticket at the link in our bio - and while you’re there, sign up for our newsletter to get all of our concert announcements directly to your inbox 

New logo by New year, new concerts! Mark those 2024 calendars ✨

January 21 📍Northbrook Public Library @northbrookpl 3pm, works by Shostakovich, Hyla, @carolineadelaideshaw, and Debussy. Free admission, reserve your seat at the link in our bio! We had the absolute delight of  going to the Remedios Varo exhibit at @artinstitutechi this week for a walk through with Alivé Piliado and Lara Balikci, who both had so much to share with us about Varo and about constructing the exhibit! The e We had a blast presenting this program for a sold out (!!!) crowd at the May Chapel in Rosehill Cemetery last night! Thank you all so much for making our debut such a memorable one 🥰

Our next concert will be January 21st, 3pm at the Northbrook Publ @lena.vidu can’t wait for tonight - it’s finally concert day! There are just a few tickets left - get yours at the link in our bio! There will be a limited number of tickets for sale at the door as well, but bring cash ($10) as we are cas Cellist @instidora_ is all smiles because our debut show is 3/4 sold out! Make sure to get your ticket at the link in our bio before Friday! 
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📸 Sean Keenan Recording Why are @carmenableson and @hannahlartin so happy? Because our concert is in one week! Get your tickets at the link in our bio and we’ll see you soon! 
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📸 Sean Keenan Recording

Photos by Petr Poliak Photography and Keenan Recording LLC. Collage by Alissa Voth.

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