The GRAMMY Award-winning Parker Quartet brings their celebrated “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” performances to masterpieces spanning Vienna’s extraordinary musical heritage. Their interpretation of Beethoven’s taut, enigmatic Serioso Quartet reveals the revolutionary spirit that defined the First Viennese School. A century later, Anton Webern’s concentrated Five Movements carries this innovative tradition forward - his crystalline miniatures distilling Viennese expressivity through modernist techniques. The evening culminates with Schubert’s epic String Quartet No. 15 – composed in Vienna just weeks before his death – where the Parkers navigate the sublime balance between fragility and strength that characterizes the composer’s final works. Having performed at prestigious venues from Wigmore Hall to Carnegie Hall, the Parker Quartet illuminates this remarkable journey through Vienna’s musical evolution with exceptional technical precision and profound emotional insight.

Pre-Concert Talk with Jonathan Palevsky at 6:30PM