### Event Description: Belcea String Quartet & Ébène String Quartet at Princeton University Concerts

**Date and Time:**  
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST

**Location:**  
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton University

**Event Overview:**  
Join us for an extraordinary evening of classical music as two of today's finest string quartets, the Belcea String Quartet and the Ébène String Quartet, come together to perform octets by Felix Mendelssohn and George Enescu. This concert is part of the Princeton University Concerts' Concert Classics Series and promises to be a night of immaculately articulated exuberance, as described by The Strad.

**Program:**  
- **Felix Mendelssohn:** Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20  
- **George Enescu:** Octet in C Major, Op. 7

These monumental works, incredibly written by the composers in their teens, are quintessential representations of the form, showcasing the sonic power and rich, multilayered possibilities of an octet configuration.

**Musicians:**  
- **Violins:** Corina Belcea, Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure, Suyeon Kang  
- **Violas:** Marie Chilemme, Krzysztof Chorzelski  
- **Cellos:** Antoine Lederlin, Yuya Okamoto  

**Ticket Information:**  
This event is currently available as part of a Curated Subscription, Make-Your-Own Series, or Princeton University Student Early Bird program. Single tickets will go on sale on Monday, August 5 at noon Eastern time.

**Additional Information:**  
- **Venue & Accessibility:** Get directions, see parking and accessibility info, and download seating charts.  
- **Contact:** For more information, please contact Princeton University Concerts at 609-258-2800.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to experience world-class music in an intimate setting before these ensembles head to Carnegie Hall. Add this event to your calendar and prepare for an unforgettable musical journey.

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Belcea String Quartet Ébène String Quartet

Alexander Hall

Two of today’s finest string quartets become even more than the sum of their parts in octets by Felix Mendelssohn and George Enescu. These monumental works—each, incredibly, written by the prodigious composers in their teens—are quintessential representations of the form, showcasing the sonic power and rich, multilayered possibilities of an octet configuration. The Belcea Quartet’s most recent concert at Carnegie Hall was praised as “masterful ... superior artistry ... full of style, feeling, and expressive depth” (New York Classical Review), while Quatuor Ébène was called “as gorgeous as any ensemble in recent memory ... immaculately articulated exuberance” (The Strad).

Belcea Quartet Quatuor Ébène

Carnegie Hall

In 2019-20 the ensemble celebrated its first 20 years with its Beethoven Around the World project, recording all of the composer’s quartets on six different continents with complete cycles in major centres. Reviewing one resulting recording, Gramophone referred to an ‘acute sense of emotional timing [that] distinguishes the Ébènes from many of their contemporary rivals’.

Yuya Okamoto

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