Chamber Music America and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park present the Ivalas Quartet and their program First Light, performing on Saturday, March 22, at 7:00 p.m. First Light features works by Osvaldo Golijov, Eleanor Alberga, and Ludvig van Beethoven.
First Light brings the listener on a journey through the cosmos with works by composers who muse on the origins of our universe and the experience of existing beyond our world. The program closes with Beethoven’s Opus 130, a piece deemed so timeless that a recording was included in the 1977 Voyager craft as a gift to any otherworldly beings it might encounter. First Light premiered at Carnegie Hall.
Hailed by The Strad for playing with “tremendous heart and beauty,” the Ivalas Quartet has been changing the face of classical music since its inception in 2017. With its mission to enrich the classical music world by spotlighting past and present BIPOC composers alongside the standard repertory, the Ivalas Quartet comprises violinists Rueben Kebede and Tiani Butts, violist Marcus Stevenson, and cellist Pedro Sánchez.
The Quartet is the 2024–2025 Curator/Performing Ensemble of the Schneider Concerts at The New School and was in residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder under the mentorship of the Takács Quartet. They performed in Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City series and, in collaboration with New Latin Wave, the FUTUROS – New Ideas in Composition series.
Chamber Music America, the national network of ensemble music professionals, was founded in 1977 to develop, strengthen, and support the chamber music community. With a membership including musicians, ensembles, presenters, artists’ managers, educators, music businesses, and advocates of ensemble music, CMA welcomes members representing a wide range of musical styles and traditions.
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