Lermontov Quartet Plays Mozart

Featuring two of the finest Mozart String Quartets

 

played by 

 

The Lermontov Quartet

Jonathon Glonek, violin
Lecturer in Violin Studies, Chulalongkorn University

Inga Causa, violin
Principal Second Violinist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra

Colin Wrubleski, viola
Principal Viola of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra
 Marcin Szawelski, cello

cellist, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday 23rd March at 5pm

Program

Quartet No. 3 In G Major K 156

Quartet No. 4 In C Major K 157

Quartet No. 14 In G Major K 387

Quartet No. 23 In F Major K 590

The Quartet in G Major, K387 is the first of six quartets dedicated to Haydn. Mozart wrote this quartet when he was 26 years old and had just arrived in Vienna. It is one of the works which inspired Haydn's famous remark, "Before God and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name."

This quartet has been called 'amazing' by Juilliard professor, Misha Amory and has often been cited as the precursor of the Jupiter Symphony.

The Lermontov Quartet is playing this quartet at my request. It must be good!

Mozart's last Quartet, no. 23, K590, was the last of three quartets commissioned by the King of Prussia, described as "the culmination of his skill in the idiom". It was written in 1790, a year before Mozart's death and is among his finest works.

JONATHON GLONEK

First touring internationally at the age of 12, Jonathon studied with Alita Larsens, Alexander Treger and Tibor Varga He has since developed as a solo performing artist and has presented many challenging and serious programs to audiences throughout Europe, The United States, Southeast Asia and in Australia. A dedicated scholar and academic, he authored his first book Scales for the Violinist at the age of 26 and is also Lecturer in Violin Studies at the historic Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; one of the oldest universities in SE Asia. Mr Glonek performed Brahms, Tchaikowsky, Mendelssohn and Bach Concertos in Thailand and abroad along with the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Paganini.

INGA CAUSA

Inga Causa commenced her musical education in Latvia at age six later studying at the Riga Special Music School; Emils Darzins Institute. For 11 years Inga studied legendary violin pedagogues , Professor Izrail Abramiss and later with Professor Juris Shvolkovskis. Graduating with Merit in 1990 she received a Master Degree in Violin Performance, Pedagogy and Chamber Music. Since the age of 18 Inga has worked professionally with the Latvian National Opera orchestra, the Latvian National Symphonic orchestra, “Rigas Kamermuziki” and “ Rigas Philharmonic”. A chamber music enthusiast, she has also served as first violin of the string quartet “Difference”. Arriving in Thailand in 2003 she established as successful class of violin and ensemble students. In 2005 she was appointed as principal second violinist of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.

COLIN WRUBLESKI

Canadian-born violist and violinist Colin R. Wrubleski is in his second season as principal viola of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. Concurrently he is a violin and viola instructor for Mahidol University's Music Campus for the General Public (MCGP), Siam Paragon branch. In Thailand he has also worked as a string instrument instructor for Sararas Ektra School, Bangkok. Prior to moving to Thailand, he spent many years as an ESL instructor in Korea, where he also played in a variety of amateur, semi-professional, and collegiate ensembles, as well as in the Seoul-based Majestic String Quartet. In his native Canada, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance (violin) from the University of Regina and a Licentiate in Music (viola) from the Glenn Gould Professional School at the Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto. His primary teachers included Dr. Howard Leyton-Brown, Rennie Regehr, Martin Beaver [Tokyo String Quartet], and Andrew Dawes [ex-Orford String Quartet).

MARCIN SZAWELSKI

Marcin Tomasz Szawelski, a native of Gdansk, Poland, started his musical education at age of 7 with Andrzej Filar. He graduated with Master of Arts diploma from Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland (2005), where he studied cello performance, chamber music and music pedagogy. Currently Marcin T. Szawelski is a cello and chamber music instructor at the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand. He is a member of Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra (TPO) and Mahidol University Baroque Orchestra. With those ensembles he gave more than 200 concerts in recent years.

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