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1 Bartok - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40 / Lento  
2 Bartok - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40 / Allegretto  
3 Bartok - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40 / Introduzione  
4 Bartok - String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 / Prima parte  
5 Bartok - String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 / Seconda parte  
6 Bartok - String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 / Ricapitulazione della  
7 Bartok - String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 / Coda  
8 Bartok - String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 / Allegro  
9 Bartok - String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 / Adagio molto  
10 Bartok - String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 / Scherzo  
11 Bartok - String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 / Andante  
12 Bartok - String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 / Finale  
13 Bartok - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67 / Moderato  
14 Bartok - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67 / Allegro molto  
15 Bartok - String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67 / Lento  
16 Bartok - String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 / Allegro  
17 Bartok - String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 / Prestissimo  
18 Bartok - String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 / Non troppo lento  
19 Bartok - String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 / Allegretto pizzicato  
20 Bartok - String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 / Allegro molto  
21 Bartok - String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 / Mesto -- Vivace  
22 Bartok - String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 / Mesto -- Marcia  
23 Bartok - String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 / Mesto -- Burletta  
24 Bartok - String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114 / Mesto  
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The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) will release its next album, Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records on August 26, 2016. The 2-CD set includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. The album was produced by Alan Bise and recorded by Bruce Egre at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. The Chiara will celebrate the new album with two performances of the complete cycle of Bartók's String Quartets, played by heart, at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY on August 30 and 31 and at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL on September 7 and 8.

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  • The Chiara's are set for final concert as MET - Quartet in Residence / Broadway World
    Posted At: April 5, 2017

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the Chiara String Quartet in an encore performance on Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 7pm in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium following their lauded 2015-2016 season MetLiveArts residency. The concert will include the New York premiere of Rome Prize-winner Pierre Jalbert's Canticle String Quartet No. 6 and Brahms' Clarinet Quintet with clarinetist Todd Palmer. ...

  • UNL music students enter final 'Play with the Chiaras' AUD / Daily Nebraskan
    Posted At: March 1, 2017

    Doctorate student Jennifer Son practices her cello in preparation for her audition on March 1, 2017. Son, along with Hannah Bell and Jordan Ellis, have succeeded through the preliminary rounds and will perform to an open audience to find out if they can play with the Chiara String Quartet. For three University of Nebraska-Lincoln music students, aspirations to play alongside a world-renowned string quart...

  • Chiara Quartet - Bartok By Heart interview with KMFA Radio
    Posted At: February 14, 2017

    The Chiara Quartet has been performing and recording together for sixteen years. Initially, they were noted for, among other things, self-producing recordings on their own New Voice Singles label. Having worked with Azica Records for the past two years, their sixth commercial album is devoted to all six of the string quartets by Bela Bartok. To record these works represent a milestone in the career ...

  • Prog Rock Bartok, with Chiara String Quartet - Houston Public Media: Classical Classroom
    Posted At: January 10, 2017

    Was the famous Hungarian composer - Bartok, the forefather of bands like Rush and Yes? The Chiara String Quartet breaks it down. The celebrated classical music composer Béla Bartók was really into folk music. I mean, really into it. Not like, hitchhiking-with-beat-up-acoustic-guitar, playing-open-mic-nights folk music. More like, invented-an-analytic-study-of-folk-music-and-created-the-...

  • Chiara String Quartet set for North Dakota Museum of Art / Grand Forks Herald
    Posted At: October 26, 2016

    Members of the Chiara String Quartet, Rebecca Fischer, Jonah Sirota, Hyeyung Julie Yoon and Gregory Beaver, have gone on to achieve wide acclaim in the music world in the years since their two-year residency in Grand Forks. The Quartet opens the classical concert series this Sunday - Oct. 23 in the North Dakota Museum of Art on the UND campus, as part of the "Myra Presents: Sunday Concerts in the Ga...

  • Chiara Quartet interviews with KUAF Radio
    Posted At: October 14, 2016

    The ambitious Chiara String Quartet has recently released their new album, Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. Following up Brahms by Heart with infamously tricky Bartok. The group the 2-CD set includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. "When we began working on memorizing the Bartok quartets we found that Bartok's pr...

  • If memory serves, the Chiaras will perform without their scores / The Hamilton Spectator
    Posted At: September 30, 2016

    A string quartet playing an entire concert from memory is like four tightrope walkers performing without a safety net. Scary? Daunting? Sure, but entirely doable … after plenty of practice.  There aren't many string foursomes in the world who routinely pull off such a musical high-wire act, playing entire programmes from memory. You could probably count them on the fingers of one hand...

  • The Chiara String Quartet interviews with Kansas Public Radio
    Posted At: September 28, 2016

    The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) recently released their new album, Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. The 2-CD set includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. Produced by Alan Bise and recorded by Bruce Egre at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall i...

  • The Chiara String Quartet interviews with WCVE Radio
    Posted At: September 24, 2016

    Hungarian composer Béla Bartók sought to capture the essence of folk music in his string quartets, and in his travels across Europe and North Africa, he documented hundreds of hours of folk music, meticulously transcribing it. Much of this music had never before been written down, and had instead been passed down from generation to generation in an oral tradition. The Chiara String Qua...

  • Chiara String Quartet discusses 'Bartok by Heart' with WCPE Radio
    Posted At: September 22, 2016

    The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) new 2-CD album, Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. The album was produced by Alan Bise and recorded by Bruce Egre at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. The Chiara ...

  • The Chiara String Quartet interview with All Classical Portland
    Posted At: September 13, 2016

    Chiara in Italian means "clear", "pure" or "light".  These are apt words to describe the group's sound, as well as their approach to string quartet repertoire.  The four have been together since their Juilliard days (more likely longer than that), and have several recordings under their belts already.  By now, you've probably wondered what "by heart" means: Yes, they play the 6 Bartok quar...

  • Chiara Quartet - Bartok By Heart is WBAA: New Release
    Posted At: September 6, 2016

    Wednesday and Thursday, the Chiara String Quartet perform at Ravinia. Their program over the two nights include all six of the quartets by Bela Bartok. The catch? They are performing them all by memory. No music! No music stands. WBAA: W. Laffayette IN - Music Director John Clare spoke to the four members of the Chiara String Quartet, Rebecca Fischer, violin; Jonah Sirota, viola; Hye-Yung Julie Yoon, vio...

  • Chiara Quartet plays Bartok Quartets at Ravinia 'by heart' / WFMT Radio
    Posted At: September 1, 2016

    The Chiara String Quartet has dedicated itself to finding ways of making the musical experience exciting and engaging. For their latest project, the quartet has recorded all of Béla Bartók's quartets from memory, and will perform the complete cycle over two nights on September 7 and 8 at the Ravinia Festival. I spoke with three members of the quartet – Hyeyung Julie Yoon (violin), Jon...

  • The Chiara String Quartet previews - Bartok by Heart with WGTE Radio
    Posted At: September 1, 2016

    Following their 2014 Brahms by Heart album, The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) has just recorded their new album of Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory - Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. The 2-CD set was produced by Alan Bise and recorded...

  • Chiara recorded the entire Bartok cycle from memory / Lincoln Journal Star
    Posted At: August 31, 2016

    In October 2013, the Chiara String Quartet performed Bela Bartok's String Quartets No. 1, 3 and 5 as part of the Hixson-Lied concert series. A month later, the ensemble completed the cycle, playing Nos. 2, 4 and 6. The quartet -- violinists Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violist Jonah Sirota and cellist Gregory Beaver -- played the challenging cycle from sheet music. Then they decided to take it...

  • KPBX: Spokane discusses Bartok with The Chiara String Quartet
    Posted At: August 30, 2016

    The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) will release its next album, Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. The 2-CD set includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. The album was produced by Alan Bise and recorded by Bruce Egre at Troy Savings Bank Musi...

  • Chiara Quartet plays Bartok By Heart / WQXR
    Posted At: August 26, 2016

    When the Chiara String Quartet performs all of Bartok's six string quartets by heart next week at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, it believes it will accomplish a feat no other group of musicians has ever attempted. Playing music strictly by memory is nothing new for the Chiara, however. The quartet - which was established in 2000 by violinists Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violist Jonah Sirota a...

  • Chiara String Quartet set to play complete Bartok SQ from memory at National Sawdust / The New York Times
    Posted At: August 25, 2016

    "Bartok By Heart" is a funny term when you think about it. After all, the act of memorization is done by the head. But the members of the Chiara String Quartet, who have made it their mission to perform without sheet music in front of them, say something special happens in the act of internalizing an entire quartet; connections deepen - with the music, with fellow players and with the audience. On Tuesda...

  • The Chiara String Quartet - Bartok by Heart / KDFC: Download Of the Week'
    Posted At: August 24, 2016

    Each week, KDFC: San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. This week's selection is from The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) and their new album Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. With the August 26, 2016, release on Frida...

  • Chiara String Quartet discusses 'Bartok by Heart' with Classical Radio
    Posted At: August 23, 2016

    The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung JulieYoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) release: Bartók by Heart, on Azica Records. The 2-CD set includes Béla Bartók's six string quartets, played entirely from memory. The album was produced by Alan Bise and recorded by Bruce Egre at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy, NY. The C...

  • NET Radio presents Bartok and the Chiara Quartet on Friday Live
    Posted At: August 19, 2016

    NET Radio presents the Chiara String Quartet live Friday, August 26 from the Ron Hull Studio at NET in Lincoln. The quartet will perform selections from the new CD "Bartok By Heart." We'll have cameras in the studio, so you can watch the performance live online or listen to the radio broadcast as the quartet plays Bartok's music from memory. If you'd like to be part of the audience, pleas...

  • The Chiara String Quartet: Leyendas / An Andean Walkabout
    Posted At: October 30, 2006

    ". . . a luminous work that translates Andean folk music to the string quartet medium. [Gabriela Frank] has a highly refined ear, which results in string writing that is exceptionally smooth and idiomatic yet that in its imitation of panpipes and other indigenous instruments bursts with color and fresh individuality."  - L.A. Times The Chiara Quartet presents: Gabriela Lena Frank&...
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