In May, Tobias String Quartet will give two concerts in Greece. On May 20, the quartet will perform together with young Greece clarinet palyer Dionysios Grammenos who was awarded the Eurovision Young Musician Prize in 2008. Concert will take place at Benak Museum in Athens and celebrates International Museum Day. The program consists of Clarinet Quintet in B flat major, Op. 34 by Carl Maria von Weber, String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 by Joseph Haydn and Summa, Da pacem Domine and Fratres by Arvo Pärt.
On May 21, Tobias String Quartet will play Estonian chamber music at Holy Monastery of St. John the Forerunner in Anatoli Agias. String Quartet No. 2 by Rudolf Tobias, Summa, Da pacem Domine and Fratres by Arvo Pärt and Five Pieces for Strings by Heino Eller will be performed.
Concerts are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture, the Association of Estonian Professional Musicians and Estonian Embassy in Athens.
Tobias String Quartet, founded in 2000, has regularly given concerts in Estonia as well as abroad (Stockholm, Berlin, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Riga). 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.
Agnes Toomla