Not so very long ago, women were not allowed to study in the fine arts, much less perform on stages other than bawdy houses. Today, we have better understanding that women are possessed of far more richer and varies knowledge and talent than only bearing and raising children. The musical talent of women is richly and widely welcomed today, not least is a more recently formed (2005) sting quartet called Chiaroscuro Quartet. Violins, viola and cello in the very capable hands of four young well-schooled, richly talented women, the Quartet mad ea brief stop in Saint Paul to perform a concert of Mozart and Schubert as the opening in the new schedule of the Julie Himmelstrup Music In The Park series,
They played instruments carefully maintained and strung with gut strings, rather than the manufactured strings found on most such instruments these days. Rich, nuanced, multiple-interpreted scores brought to life with passion and care. The four young women demonstrated enormous talent and understanding of the music under their care.
A young quartet, formed in 2005, the four are being scheduled across the world's concert venues and they are building a discography that is to be admired. Find them, hear them, and you will be transported to a world of classical music rare in today's world. It was a richly satisfying afternoon of some of the world's most significant instrumental music performed as it should be by this talented young quartet..