World-Renowned Harlem Quartet brings free performance to YSU’s Cliffe College Performing Arts Series

Youngstown State University’s Cliffe College of Creative Arts welcomes Harlem Quartet, a New-York based string group, as the performer for its next installment of the Cliffe College Performing Arts Series to be held 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Currently quartet-in-residence at the John J. Cali School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, Harlem Quartet is a leading ensemble in both educational and community engagement capacities. The group aims to advance diversity in classical music by performing varied repertoire, including works by minority composers.

Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, Harlem Quartet has appeared throughout the U.S. as well as in Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Panama, South Africa, Venezuela, and the U.K. The group has written several successful grants and often collaborates with other distinguished artists, including classical and jazz pianists, violists, cellists, clarinetists, saxophonists, and other musical groups.

The quartet also performs a variety of works written for both solo string quartet and orchestra, including performing the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” as arranged for string quartet and orchestra by the late Randall Craig Fleischer, former Music Director of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets to this concert are free, but a ticket reservation is required for admission. You may reserve tickets by visiting ysu.tix.com.

Cliffe College invites you to experience an evening of musical excellence as Harlem Quartet brings its classical talent to the stage!

For more information, contact Katie Merrill, Cliffe College Coordinator of Community Engagement and Events, at 330.941.2307 or kamerrill@ysu.edu.