Theatre Arts ProgramArthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
220 South 34th Street · Philadelphia, PA 19104
Visit the Penn Art & Culture photoset of a rehearsal at the Arthur Ross Gallery here.
Come experience a performance of Janacek's 'Kreutzer Sonata' and Schoenberg's 'Transfigured Night' by the Daedalus Quartet and guest musicians William Polk, Kerri Ryan and Clancy Newman.
The project also features Penn student actors Catalina Mullis and Max Gabarre-Grindrod, and Philadelphia area dancers Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock.
Staging directed by Dr. Marcia Ferguson.
Choreographed by Manfred Fischbeck of Group Motion.
Presented with the generous support of the Arthur Ross Gallery.
About the Daedalus Quartet
Praised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” the Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading musical venues, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein (Vienna), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Cité de la Musique (Paris), and in major venues in Canada, Japan, Germany, and Belgium.
They have premiered works by Joan Tower, Fred Lerdahl, Richard Wernick, Lawrence Dillon, and David Horne, and have recorded extensively for Bridge Records. They have forged associations with some of America’s leading classical music and educational institutions: Lincoln Center, where they were appointed the quartet as the Chamber Music Society Two string quartet by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and have performed frequently for the Great Performers series and the Mostly Mozart Festival; Carnegie Hall, through the European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) Rising Stars program; and as Quartet-in-Residence at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
About the Guest Musicians
Violinist William Polk has served as a member of the second violin section of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2007. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he studied violin with professors Sally O'Reilly and Camilla Wicks at Louisiana State University. Prior to moving to Philadelphia, he served as associate principal second violin of the Minnesota Orchestra beginning in 2005. Prior to that he was guest principal second violin of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with orchestras across the country. Polk and his wife, Kerri Ryan, now assistant principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra, founded the Minneapolis Quartet and performed with them in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota from 2002 to 2007, winning a McKnight Artist Fellowship in 2006. William and Kerri live in Center City Philadelphia with their children, James and Vivian.
Violist Kerri Ryan joined The Philadelphia Orchestra at the beginning of the 2007-08 season as assistant principal viola. She came to Philadelphia from the Minnesota Orchestra, where she was assistant principal viola there for seven seasons. Following her graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1998 she served as associate concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony. Ms. Ryan and her husband, violinist William Polk, founded and performed with the Minneapolis Quartet from 2002-2007. In Philadelphia, while pursuing a violin performance degree at Curtis, Ms. Ryan began studying viola with Karen Tuttle. Ms. Ryan also studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a member of its Young Artist Program. Her violin teachers include Lee Snyder, Jascha Brodsky, Rafael Druian, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Cellist Clancy Newman, first prize winner of the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has had the unusual career of a performer/composer. He has performed as soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. He can often be heard on NPR’s “Performance Today” and has been featured on A&E’s “Breakfast With the Arts”. A sought after chamber musician, he has been a member of Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center and Musicians from Marlboro, and is a current member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians. As a composer, he has been featured on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Double Exposure” series and the Chicago Chamber Musicians’ “Freshly Scored” series. He has received numerous commissions, and his piano trio, Juxt-Opposition, is available on Bridge Records. Mr. Newman is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University, receiving a M.M. from Juilliard and a B.A. in English from Columbia.
Tickets
THIS PROJECT IS SOLD OUT.
Tickets are available by phone (215-898-3900) and in person at the box office of the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts until 4pm on January 29. Seating is very limited. Any tickets available after 4pm on January 29 will be sold before the performance at the Arthur Ross Gallery starting at 7pm-cash only sales at the Arthur Ross Gallery.
General admission seating $10