
Music Mondays: Verona Quartet & Steven Banks
February 3, 2025
Verona Quartet & Steven Banks
The “vibrant, intelligent” Verona Quartet (NY Times) teams up with sensational young classical saxophonist Steven Banks, recent winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, for a diverse program that explores the various forms of love. He and the Quartet perform both separately and together, joining for the world premiere of a Music Mondays commission by Grammy-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis.
Program
Debussy — Syrinx
Mendelssohn — “Ist es wahr?”
Janáček — String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
Mozart — Quartet for Oboe and Strings, K. 370
Arvo Pärt — Fratres
Reena Esmail — Magan Rehna
Christopher Theofanidis — New Work (World premiere, commissioned by Music Mondays)