Name: Imran Amarshi, conducting
Start: 2026-01-15T19:30:00
Location: Northwestern University

Kathryn Jarvey

Jonah Stuckey

Wiktoria Godawa

Natalie Johnson

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Acclaimed for its “sublime, incandescent” playing (Chicago Classical Review), the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is the 2018 winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust award and The Netherlands’ coveted Kersjes Prize. The quartet’s recent projects have included the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Only the Sound Remains, a collaboration with director Rosabel Huguet reimagining Beethoven’s Op. 132 String Quartet for children, and the recording and release of the first installment of the complete Tchaikovsky string quartets. Concert highlights include the group’s Australian debuts at the UKARIA Cultural Centre and Canberra International Festival, as well as the performance of John Adams’ Absolute Jest with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam 2026

Northwestern University

Since winning the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual competition in 1999, Lorenzo Micheli has been a prolific player in the international classical guitar scene. Over his career, Micheli has played over 1,000 concerts throughout the world. As a soloist and with orchestras, he has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Sejong Hall, and the Royal Concertgebouw. Among his collaborations with an impressive range of artists from the Assad Brothers to David Knopfler of Dire Straits, Micheli’s work with Matteo Mela as SoloDuo is most notable, with The Washington Post deeming them “extraordinarily sensitive—nothing less than rapturous.” Micheli’s discography spans more than twenty recordings on labels including Naxos, Stradivarius, and Decca-Universal. Micheli teaches at the University School of Music in Switzerland and is an artist-in-residence at both the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbus State University. He also serves as guest faculty at Spain’s Pedro de Olavide University and Italy’s Parma Conservatory.

Lorenzo Micheli, guitar

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

Bienen piano professor Christopher Guzman is joined by violinist and recent Los Angeles Philharmonic assistant concertmaster Akiko Tarumoto, as well as Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal viola Teng Li and CSO assistant principal cello Kenneth Olsen.

Bienen Faculty and Guests

Imran Amarshi, conducting

The Vertavo String Quartet has captivated audiences the world over since its founding in 1984. The quartet’s honors and awards include Norway’s Grieg Prize; First Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Critics’ Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition; and a Diapason d’Or for their recording of Debussy and Grieg quartets. The group has toured extensively throughout Europe, the US, and Japan, and collaborated with pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Leif Ove Andsnes, clarinetist Sabine Meyer, and violinist and violist Isabelle van Keulen.