Cellist

The esteemed and popular Alexander String Quartet has enlivened SF Performances seasons for more than three decades, joined by Music Historian-in-Residence Robert Greenberg. Together they explore in music and words some of chamber music’s most intriguing and important composers, their works, lives, and times. Looking back to the early years of the last century, the Quartet and Greenberg will explore the rich history of bright innovation and creation during often dark times.

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Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 6

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 5

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 4

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 3

The Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg look back 100 years to the tumultuous social and political era of the early 20th century—times not unlike our own—and explore enduring works of the great music it produced. Programs will include works by Debussy, Ravel, Webern, Schoenberg, Sibelius, and Nielsen

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

The Alexander String Quartet, having just celebrated its 40th anniversary, has performed in the major music capitals of five continents, securing its standing among the world’s premier ensembles and a major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco. The quartet has served since 1989 as Ensemble in Residence of San Francisco Performances and Directors of The Morrison Chamber Music Center Instructional Program at San Francisco State University. They have established themselves as important advocates of new music, commissioning dozens of works from composers including Jake Heggie, Cindy Cox, Augusta Read Thomas, Robert Greenberg, Cesar Cano, Tarik O’Regan, Paul Siskind, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Wayne Peterson. Samuel Carl Adams’s “Quintet with Pillars” was premiered and has been widely performed across the U.S. by the Alexander with pianist Joyce Yang. The ASQ’s distinguished discography of Mozart, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Dvořák and Mahler songs now includes a veritable Brahms compendium with a recording of the three string quartets, plus a recently re-recorded Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2, transcribed by Zakarias Grafilo.

Alexander String Quartet

Kohl Mansion

A happy habit for a generation of San Francisco Performances concertgoers devoted to spending Saturday mornings with great music and fun, informative commentary. Deftly placed into compelling context by Robert Greenberg, our music historian-in-residence, each program features complete works performed by the Alexander String Quartet.
This season, the five look back 100 years to the tumultuous social and political era of the early 20th century—times not unlike our own—and explore enduring works of the great music it produced. Programs will include works by Debussy, Ravel, Webern, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Bartók, Elgar, and Vaughan Williams.

Alexander String Quartet & Robert Greenberg | Host

A major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco, the Alexander String Quartet is equally beloved in its second home, the Mondavi Center. This year the quartet appears with violist David Samuel joining cellist Sandy Wilson, and violinists Fred Lifsitz and Zakarias Grafilo.
All Alexander String Quartet performances will take place in Jackson Hall and will feature Robert Greenberg's lecture on each piece followed by a full performance of the same piece.

Berkeley Chamber Performances is excited to welcome the Alexander String Quartet back to our series on November 1. “This is a group deep in its element, firm in its stride.” LA Times.

Berkeley City Club

A great way to spend a Saturday morning! The beloved and famed Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg explore the chamber music of Antonin Dvořák. These popular and casual concerts combine complete performances with commentary on the composer, his life, times and music bringing depth, insight and humor to the context.  No 19th-century composer wrote chamber music more joyful and melodically brilliant, or more accessible than the Bohemian born Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904). His work is remarkable for its straightforward expressive content, humor, grace and technical polish.

Sandy Wilson

Cellist

Events

Apr 27, 2024

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 6 · San Francisco Performances

Mar 23, 2024

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 5 · San Francisco Performances

Mar 2, 2024

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 4 · San Francisco Performances

Jan 27, 2024

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg 3 · San Francisco Performances

Dec 3, 2023 - May 5, 2024

Alexander String Quartet with Robert Greenberg · Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

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