Musical Magic on Tap for Summer 2009

The DaPonte String Quartet to bring the best of chamber music to ...

South Bristol - Boothbay - Harpswell - Ogunquit

See below for dates.

"The fearless DaPonte is at
the top of its game."

  -Strings Magazine


"The DaPonte is a first-rate string quartet.
Their imagination,skill and dedication brought
my first string quartet vibrantly to life!"

  -David Del Tredici


"It is seldom that one gets to hear such
top-notch string quartet-playing these days,
but at the Daponte String Quartet's
Weill Recital Hall concert, you were
treated to just that."

 -Anthony Aibel


"The DaPonte String Quartet attracted
a larger than expected audience to the
Barn Gallery [Ogunquit, ME] Saturday
night for the third concert of the Chamber
Music Festival.... They played the Mozart
String Quartet in C Major (K.465), Gershwin's
Lullaby for String Quartet and the Schubert
String Quartet in D minor ("Death and the
Maiden"), published after the composer's
death.... The performance in the gallery
was out of the ordinary, full of precision,
balance and musical excitement...."

  -Christopher Hyde


"Those who braved subzero cold to hear the
DaPonte String Quartet at State Street Church
in Portland ... were rewarded by one of their most
memorable concerts of recent years. The
Maine-based Quartet has been outstanding for
some time, but violist Kirsten Monke ... has
added new dimensions of richness and volume.
[The] Haydn "Rider" Quartet ... was an indication
of what was to come--crisp, perfectly articulated
and with a thoroughly modern sound."

 -Christopher Hyde

Clockwise, from left: Lydia Forbes, violin;
Ferdinand 'Dino' Liva, violin; Kirsten Monke, Viola;
Myles Jordan, cello.