In Studio A with the 2021 Advanced String Quartets

Interlochen Public Radio | By Amanda Sewell

Published August 11, 2021 at 12:39 PM EDT

Four high school Advanced String Quartets perform Beethoven's op. 74 quartet in E-flat major.

The sixteen students in the High School Advanced String Quartets visited IPR's Studio A recently to record the piece they learned during the three weeks of camp this summer.

Each quartet learned one movement of Beethoven's String Quartet no. 10 in E-flat major (op. 74).

Hear the members of each quartet introduce themselves and then perform their quartet movement.

Movement I: William Kinney (violin), Anna Ciszewska (violin), Elisabeth Meade (viola), Katrina Wolfe (cello)

L to R: William Kinney, Anna Ciszewska, Katrina Wolfe and Elisabeth Mead

Movement II: Eddie Zhou (violin), Olivia Choi (violin), Emily Moloney (viola), Anika Grieve (cello)

L to R: Eddie Zho, Olivia Choi, Anika Grieve, Emily Moloney

Movement III: Clark Snavely (violin), Joshua Cisneros (violin), Adele Kelley (viola), Nicholas Chrisman (cello)

L to R: Clark Snavely, Joshua Cisneros, Nicholas Chrisman

Movement IV: Madison Oh (violin), Kaito Stohr (violin), Grace Leonard (viola), Mercedes Stratton (cello)

L to R: Madison Oh, Kaito Stohr, Mercedes Stratton, Grace Leonard

The recordings on this program were engineered by Stefan Wiebe and Kolyo Vanchev.

Lenny Schranze is the faculty coordinator of the Advanced String Quartet program at Interlochen Arts Camp.