Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: Webern Quartet

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is held in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Founded in Los Angeles in 2022, the Webern Quartet has been featured in The New Yorker, where they were praised as having “found the through line of Schoenberg’s personality.”

The Webern Quartet chose the name of Anton Webern, former student of Arnold Schoenberg, whose important string quartet oeuvre has been the starting point of the quartet. Next to their dedication to the works of the composers from the Second Viennese School, the Webern Quartet is known for its committed and intimate interpretations of works from the classical repertoire to newly written music.

In 2023, the Webern Quartet held an extensive residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna where they performed the complete Schoenberg quartets at two concerts on the same day. Through their work in Vienna with Henk Guittart of the Schoenberg Quartet (which in its time coached with Eugene Lehner of the renowned Kolisch Quartet, Schoenberg’s preferred performers), the Webern Quartet is privileged to honor and continue an interpretive tradition of these quartets.

The quartet’s members are from Italy, Japan, South Korea, and the U.S.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
Quartet in F Major No. 23, K. 590

I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante/Allegretto
III. Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio
IV. Allegro

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
String Quartet in F Major

I. Allegro moderato – très doux
II. Assez vif – très rythmé
III. Très lent
IV. Vif et agité

Webern Quartet
Benjamin Hoffman, violin
Chiai Tajima, violin
Alex Granger, viola
Stella Cho, cello