Tokyo String Quartet: with Joan Panetti, piano/composer

Coleman's Centennial concert will be the 11th performance on the series by the Tokyo String Quartet since winning the Coleman-Barstow prize in 1970. Officially formed in 1969 at The Juilliard School of Music, the quartet traces its origins to the Toho School of Music in Tokyo. Teaching is as deep a passion as performing for the members of the quartet, who as quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music since 1976 have long devoted time at Yale during the academic year and at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the summers. It is in this context that the quartet has worked extensively with pianist and composer Joan Panetti, who has been the director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Yale Summer School of Music since 1981.

Panetti's quintet was commissioned by Music Accord, a consortium of United States presenters including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Coleman; FleetBoston Celebrity Series; Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa; Krannert Center Marquee Series, University of Illinois; the La Jolla Chamber Music Society and Festival; the Library of Congress; San Francisco Performances; Tanglewood; and the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan.

Program:

• Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Op. 116 "Aus Meinem Leben"
• Panetti: Piano Quintet (world premiere) *
• Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

* First Coleman Chamber Concert performance

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