MUSIC

Rice University Shepherd School of Music presents a Guest Artist Recital. Featuring:  Andrew Jennings, (pictured) violin from the University of Michigan.

Scheduled:   

The complete (50) Caprice Variations for solo violin (1970) by George Rochberg.

About Andrew Jennings:  His principal teachers were Ivan Galamian, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Gearhart and Raphael Druian. He was a founding member of the Concord String Quartet, a new ensemble that quickly gained international recognition by winning the Naumberg Chamber Music Award in 1972 and which performed more than 1200 concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Specializing in the performance of new works (with an emphasis on American composers), this Quartet gave more than 50 premieres and commissions; it also performed the standard repertory and 32 cycles of the complete Beethoven quartets and made numerous recordings, three of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. Mr. Jennings maintained his association with this Quartet until it disbanded in 1987. The Concord Trio, which Mr. Jennings subsequently formed with Norman Fischer and Jeanne Kierman, debuted in 1993.

Mr. Jennings’ teaching career began at Dartmouth College where members of the Concord Quartet were engaged as artists-in-residence from 1974 to 1987. Later he served on the faculty of Oberlin College. He currently devotes his summers to chamber music instruction at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts where he holds the Beatrice Proctor Master Teacher Chair and to the Musicorda School for Strings Holyoke Massachusetts. His recordings can be found on RCA, Nonesuch, Vox, Turnabout, Equilibrium, Danacord and MMO.

8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Co-sponsor: Da Camera of Houston
Free admission