Sunday, February 26

Sound & Spirit: Abel Family Quartet

Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Abel Family Quartet is a string quartet based in Indianapolis playing Mozart, Quartet in G Major, K. 387, Schubert’s Quartettsats, and Brahms’s Quartet in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2.

In 2003 Alfred and Colette Abel, founding members of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, established the Abel Family Quartet with their children, Clara and Benjamin. Originally performing only for close friends and family, AFQ has since performed in numerous chamber music festivals and series
around the United States.

The four family members hold degrees from leading music schools such as Eastman, Juilliard, IU, and the University of Cincinnati, and have studied with Franco Gulli, Charles Castleman, Csaba Erdelyi, and Joel Krosnik, among many other fine teachers. AFQ members are also able to call upon the wisdom of the world’s finest quartets with whom they studied, including the Brentano Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Vermeer Quartet, Dover Quartet, Ariel Quartet, Lasalle Quartet, Juilliard Quartet and
Ying Quartet.

AFQ has performed in the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Series, Sioux City Chamber Music Series, Vista Lyrica (NYC), Greencastle Summer Music Festival, Chamber Music Festival of the Finger Lakes, Arts at Second Presbyterian, Arts at All Saints, and St. Paul’s Music. As well as beloved standards, the Abel Family Quartet has approached newly written works by Richard Auldon Clark, Jorge Lopez Marin, and James Aikman, as well as commissioning Indianapolis-based composer Nicholas Sokol to write Visible Horizon, for String Quartet and Electronics. They premiered the choreographed version of Aikman’s Ania’s Song with Indianapolis Ballet. The four of them have individually appeared at prestigious music festivals around the globe, including Kneisel Hall, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Castleman Quartet Program, and Aspen Summer Music Festival.

Admission is free!