As part of a USA tour with The Green Room Ensemble.

Experience an extraordinary evening of live music featuring acclaimed works for strings and piano, including the U.S. premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Three String Quartets and the world premiere of her Second Piano Quintet, with Alberga performing at the piano. This special performance offers a rare chance to hear a living composer’s newest work in the Logan Center for the Arts.

Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle

String Quartet No. 1
Piano Quintet No. 2 “Stark” World Premiere
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 2

Thomas Bowes and Nathan Meltzer, violins
Jordan Bak, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Eleanor Alberga, piano

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As part of a USA tour with The Green Room Ensemble

Experience an extraordinary evening of live music featuring acclaimed works for strings and piano, including the U.S. premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Three String Quartets and the world premiere of her Second Piano Quintet, with Alberga performing at the piano. This special performance offers a rare chance to hear a living composer’s newest work in the Logan Center for the Arts.

Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle

String Quartet No. 1
Piano Quintet No. 2 “Stark” World Premiere
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 2

Thomas Bowes and Nathan Meltzer, violins
Jordan Bak, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Eleanor Alberga, piano

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As part of a USA tour with The Green Room Ensemble

Experience an extraordinary evening of live music featuring acclaimed works for strings and piano, including the U.S. premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Three String Quartets and the world premiere of her Second Piano Quintet, with Alberga performing at the piano. This special performance offers a rare chance to hear a living composer’s newest work in the Logan Center for the Arts.

Eleanor Alberga: The String Quartet Cycle

String Quartet No. 1
Piano Quintet No. 2 “Stark” World Premiere
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 2

Thomas Bowes and Nathan Meltzer, violins
Jordan Bak, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Eleanor Alberga, piano

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Voices Under Pressure: Oskar McCarthy (baritone) and Ben Smith (piano)

Voices Under Pressure brings together four British song cycles by living composers, exploring how poetry, testimony, correspondence and documentary texts are transformed into compelling musical narratives.

The programme explores four distinct forms of pressure - emotional, environmental, interpersonal and social - tracing how the human voice responds to experiences that shape both individual lives and collective memory.

Programme:

• Eleanor Alberga, The Soul's Expression (2017)
  Text: George Eliot, Emily Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Michael Parsons, Three Arctic Songs (1984-5, reworked 2025)
  Text: Fridtjof Nansen's Arctic expedition journals

• Yshani Perinpanayagam, Cage Letters (2023)
  Text: Letters between John Cage and Merce Cunningham

• Cameron Biles-Liddell, Below Ground (2023) UK premiere
  Text: Testimonies and words from Welsh mining communities

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Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in C major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob. III:32 "Sun Quartet No. 2"
Eleanor Alberga — String Quartet No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 "Razumovsky III"
Traditional — Selected works

One of Britain's finest young string quartets, the Maxwell Quartet's charisma and sense of adventure shine through in everything they do. With a strong connection to their folk music heritage, they are committed to bringing together wide-ranging projects and programs that expand the string quartet repertoire.

"Superb storytelling from four great communicators." – The Strad

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PROGRAMME

Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Quintet, Op. 16

Eleanor Alberga Shining Gate of Morpheus

Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59, No. 1, "Razumovsky No. 1"

On the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's passing, our own Seattle Symphony musicians curate and perform programs centered around his beloved chamber music for the 2026/2027 Chamber Series. In this April program, the young Beethoven stretches his wings with an early quintet for piano and wind instruments. His art for string quartet takes flight with the joyous first Razumovsky Quartet. Alongside Beethoven's early work, we explore a work by Eleanor Alberga, pondering in music the world of sleep and dreams.

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