

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Avalon 30
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: To celebrate the Avalon Quartet’s 30th anniversary, each member has selected some of their favorite works to revisit for the season. This program features Beethoven’s Op. 130 Quartet, with the Grosse Fuge Op. 133, along with the Ravel Quartet, which was featured on their debut recording.

 

Described by the Chicago Tribune as “an ensemble that invites you — ears, mind, and spirit — into its music,” the Avalon String Quartet has established itself as one of the country’s leading chamber music ensembles.

The Avalon has performed in major venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, Merkin Hall, and Bargemusic in New York; the Library of Congress and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC; Wigmore Hall in London; and Herculessaal in Munich. Other performances include appearances at the Bath International Music Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Caramoor, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, NPR’s St. Paul Sunday, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Dame Myra Hess Concerts, Los Angeles Music Guild, and the Ravinia Festival. The quartet performs an annual concert series in historic Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it has presented the complete quartet cycles of Beethoven, Bartok, and Brahms in recent seasons.

The Avalon is quartet-in-residence at the Northern Illinois University School of Music, a position formerly held by the Vermeer Quartet. Additional teaching activities have included the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute, Interlochen Advanced Quartet Program, Madeline Island Music Camp, and the Britten-Pears School in England, as well as masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the United States. Additionally, they have given numerous performances and presentations to young audiences in under-resourced schools and communities.

In 2015, the quartet released “Illuminations”, its first recording for Cedille Records. It was met with praise from NY Times, WQXR radio and Chicago Tribune. This recording follows a critically acclaimed CD of contemporary American works on the Albany label in 2010. The Avalon String Quartet’s debut CD, Dawn to Dusk, featuring quartets by Ravel and Janacek, was honored with the 2002 Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for best chamber music recording.

The quartet’s live performances and conversations are frequently featured on Chicago fine arts radio station WFMT. They have also been heard on New York’s WQXR and WNYC, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, Canada’s CBC, Australia’s ABC, the ARD of Germany, and France Musique.

The Avalon captured the top prize at the ARD Competition in Munich (2000) and First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City (1999). In its early years, the ensemble trained intensively with the Juilliard Quartet at The Juilliard School, the Emerson Quartet at the Hartt School of Music, and the Vermeer Quartet at Northern Illinois University.

To learn more, visit https://avalonquartet.com/.
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- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Pianoforte Studios, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605
- **lat**: 41.86478
- **long**: -87.62369
- **full address**: Pianoforte Studios, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605

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- **organizer**: PianoForte Foundation (https://allevents.in/org/pianoforte-foundation/24784860)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 21 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Pianoforte Studios, 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60605
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** PianoForte Foundation
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, art, entertainment, music-festivals, festivals, concerts, contests, health-wellness, fine-arts, country-music-festivals
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