Beethoven's 'Serioso' with the 2023 Advanced String Quartets

May 28, 2024

Every summer, Interlochen Arts Camp's Advanced String Quartet program welcomes sixteen high school musicians who focus on learning complete string quartets.

The students are divided into four quartets, and each quartet learns one movement of a string quartet by a major composer.

During the first half of camp this summer, the Advanced String Quartet students learned a quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn.

During the second half of camp, they learned a quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Hear each quartet perform its individual movement of the Beethoven quartet on demand below.

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet no. 11 in F minor, op. 95 "Serioso"

Movement 1Caden Jiang, violin, Irvine, CAYuri Ishida, violin, San Diego, CAJocelyn Scully, viola, Chesapeake, VAJulia Yuan, cello, Boston, MA

Movement 2Emil Stachyra, violin, Ann Arbor, MISasha Kirby, violin, Brooklyn, NYJane Morrison, viola, Burke, VARyan Park, cello, Katy, TX

Quartet 3Ella Zack, violin, Buffalo, NYSelah Dowell, violin, Ypsilanti, MICamryn Bourne, viola, Dallas, TXElias Shapero, cello, Virginia Beach, VA

Quartet 4Vladimir Tsiper, violin, St. Paul, MNAlex Workman, violin, Greenville, NCLily Wodzisz, viola, Grosse Pointe, MIIan Gu, cello, Latham, NY

The quartets are coached by Melissa Kraut, Gabrielle Padilla, Tim Shiu and Lenny Schranze.

Spencer Soule engineered the recordings heard in this podcast.

Many thanks to Lenny Schranze for additional support.