Siam Society is hosting a music performance by Libere String Quartet in the Auditorium on March 1 at 7pm.
The evening programme will feature Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums), an exquisite piece written by opera composer Puccini; String Quartet No.1 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos; Langsamer Satz, a highly charged work by Austrian composer Anton Webern; and Ernest John Moeran's String Quartet No.2 In E-Flat Major.
The quartet comprises Inga Causa (violin), Mahakit Lerdcheewanan (violin), Daniel Keasler (viola) and Marcin Szawelski (cello).
Causa earned her musical education in Latvia. She studied with one of the best violin professors in the former Soviet Union, Prof Izrail Abramiss. She was a member of numerous chamber orchestra groups and currently is the principal II violin of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.
A lecturer in violin and a member of Faculty String Quartet at Mahidol University's College of Music, Mahakit has orchestral experience with several orchestras in the US. He is also assistant concertmaster of the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.
Keasler is the lecturer in viola and artist in residence at Mahidol University's College of Music. He is also the principal of the violas in the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.
Szawelski, meanwhile, is a keen educator who has taught cello and chamber music at Mahidol University's College of Music since 2006, where he currently serves as chair of the String and Chamber Music Department.
Tickets cost 900 baht (300 baht for students and 600 baht for members). Email chuleeporn@thesiamsociety.org or call 02-661-6470--3 ext 201.
