On December 27 at 1 pm, Tobias String Quartet (Maano Männi – violin, Kristjan Hallik – violin, Toomas Nestor – viola, Aare Tammesalu – cello) will give a concert at Betti Alver Museum in Jõgeva. The program consists of String Quartet No. 2 in C minor by Rudolf Tobias and String Quartet No. 2 “Elegies” by Ester Mägi.
The concert will take place in collaboration with Betti Alver Museum and is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Tobias String Quartet, founded in 2000, has regularly given concerts in Estonia as well as abroad (Stockholm, Berlin, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Riga, Athens). The quartet’s first CD was released under the German label Erdenklang in 2003. For Estonian Radio Tobias String Quartet has recorded chamber music by Lepo Sumera, Veljo Tormis, Jaan Rääts, Heino Eller and Tõnis Kaumann. Their repertoire also includes masterpieces of the world’s quartet literature. The quartet is named after Estonian composer Rudolf Tobias who composed the first string quartet in Estonian music literature.
Laura Vaikma