Garmany Chamber Music Series: Verona String Quartet & Steven Banks

Thursday, Feb. 6, 7:30pm

Millard Auditorium

The Garmany Series will welcome the Verona String Quartet with saxophonist Steven Banks. The Verona Quartet, whose playing has been hailed as “sensational…luminous… pure perfection,” is currently in residence at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Banks, who has quickly come to be regarded as one of the foremost saxophone soloists in the world, is a former Jackie McLean Fellow and Hartt adjunct faculty member. In addition to music by Debussy, Mozart and others, the program will feature the world premiere of a major new piece for saxophone and string quartet by the distinguished American composer Christopher Theofanidis. Theofanidis, a Grammy nominee and winner of the Rome Prize, teaches at the Yale School of Music.