The Euclid Quartet, a four-piece chamber ensemble, is set to take stage at Auer Hall tonight.
The performance is part of the first-ever artist exchange between the Jacobs School of Music and the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend, according to a press release from the music school.
The exchange was made possible by The Georgina Joshi Foundation, which also renovated the Louise E. Addicott and Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall at IUSB, according to the release.
“An artist exchange between students and faculty of the Indiana University music schools has been a goal of Louise E. Addicott, founder of The Georgina Joshi Foundation, from the foundation’s inception,” Yatish Joshi said in the release.
The Euclid Quartet was founded in 1998 and has been in residency at IUSB since 2007.
The quartet has played in Carnegie Hall for radio and television broadcasts.
The group is made up of violinist Jameson Cooper of Great Britain, violinist Jacob Murphy of the United States, violist Luis Enrique Vargas of Venezuela and cellist Si-Yan Darren Li of China, according to the music school.
The program’s aim is to provide performance opportunities and also encourage public performances of music, according to the release.
“Our daughter, Georgina, frequently talked about how much she learns when exposed to different methods and styles of music performance,” Joshi said in the release. “We hope this is the first in a regular schedule of exchanges and that all participants and audience members are enriched by the experience.”
The performance will be at 8 p.m. today, and the program will include Beethoven’s “String Quartet in C Major” and Grieg’s “String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27.”
This year’s exchange also included a performance by the Jacobs School of Music Latin Jazz Ensemble in South Bend this past Tuesday.
Kathrine Schulze
