Pavel Haas Quartet return for second season

After making a big impression in their first year as Glasgow’s Concert Halls’ Artist in Residence, the Pavel Haas Quartet return to Glasgow this October for a Sunday afternoon recital at City Halls.

In the second season of their three-year residency, the highly acclaimed young Czech string quartet will treat Glasgow audiences to some of the finest repertoire from their homeland.

On Sunday 23^rd October they'll be joined by special guests Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Philip Moore (piano) and Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola) for A Portrait of Dvořák at City Halls, with the programme exploring the common ground between Dvořák's work inspired by Czech traditional music and that which he composed in America. In addition to his famous American Quartet, the programme includes some of Dvořák's Slavonic Dances alongside Brahms' Hungarian Dances (Book 4), which inspired the Slavonic Dances. The Quartet's recent recording of the American received wide-spread critical acclaim and a Gramophone Award nomination.

"[Pavel Haas Quartet's] electrifying account of the American is world-class at every level"
 Sunday Herald

Throughout their three-year residency at Glasgow's Concert Halls, the quartet will also engage in community activity across Glasgow. Their visit to Glasgow in March 2011 saw them give a lunchtime concert of Ravel's String Quartet in F at Platform in Easterhouse as a pilot for future community work, in addition to their recital at City Halls.

The Pavel Haas Quartet is named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944), a gifted young composer and student of Leoš Janáček who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941 and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Comprising violinists Veronika Jarůškova and Eva Karova, violist Pavel Nikl, and cellist Peter Jarůšek, the Pavel Haas Quartet is passionate about performing the Czech repertoire.