Artist Series of Sarasota presents: “MUSIC WITH STRINGS ATTACHED”

Amernet String Quartet
with special guest - James Tocco, piano
Misha Vitenson, violin Michael Klotz, viola
Marcia Littley, violin Javier Arias, cello
Turina L’Oracion del Torrero (Bullfighter’s Prayer)
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11
Franck Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor
The exceptional Amernet String Quartet rose to international
attention after only one year in existence, after winning the Tokyo
International Music Competition in 1992. Three years later the group
was the First Prize winner of the prestigious Banff International String
Quartet Competition. The Amernet String Quartet has been described
by The New York Times as “an accomplished and intelligent ensemble”,
and by the Nürnberger Nachrichten
(Germany) as “fascinating with
flawless intonation, extraordinary
beauty of sound, virtuosic brilliance
and homogeneity of ensemble”.
The Amernet String Quartet
was formed in 1991 while two of
its members were students at The
Juilliard School. Founding
members Marcia Littley and
Javier Arias have been joined by
fellow Juilliard graduates, violinist
Misha Vitenson and violist Michael Klotz. The Amernet’s New York
debut was at Merkin Hall. Subsequent New York appearances include
Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Americas Society, and Alice Tully
Hall 1998, which The New York Times described as “immensely
satisfying... most notable for the quality of unjaded discovery that came
through so vividly.”
The Amernet performance schedule has taken them to major
musical centers and smaller cities across the United States and Japan,
Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Korea, Mexico, and Romania.
Italian-American virtuoso James Tocco enjoys international
renown as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, chamber musician and
pedagogue. Beyond his vast repertoire of virtually the entire standard
piano literature, he is widely regarded as among the foremost interpreters
of American masterworks, including Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety, which
he recorded with Leonard Slatkin and the BBC London

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