Since its founding in 1983, in Charleston, West Viriginia, the Quartet
has performed over 700 concerts and reached over 30,000 people with live
music, and many more by radio and television. Their audiences have ranged
from the most sophisticated to those who had never heard classical music
before. The group´s commitment to education, community outreach,
and audience development has earned them regional and national honors.
In May of 1995, Channing Gray of the Providence Journal-Bulletin wrote:
"Brown University's resident Charleston String Quartet has done a lot to
enrich the local music scene - even when it´s not on stage..." The
Quartet has premiered numerous compositions, and includes works of contemporary
American, women, and minority composers in its varied repertoire. The Charleston
String Quartet 1990 Composition Competition drew entries from over 200
composers worldwide. Since 1986, they have performed over 70 free concerts
at libraries throughout Rhode Island, sponsored by the Rhode Island Department
of State Library Services, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts,
and private donors. They have appeared numerous times on WGBH radio in
Boston, and have recorded the Ruth Crawford Seeger Piano Quintet with pianist
Virginia Eskin. They have just completed recording three quartets by Samuel
Adler for release on Gasparo Records.
Michiyo
Suzuki - clarinet
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A native of Japan, Michiyo Suzuki began her musical studies with piano
at age three, violin at age six and clarinet at age 13. As a recitalist
and chamber musician, Ms. Suzuki has performed extensively in her native
country as well as in Europe and the United States. She studied with Charles
Neidich at SUNY Purchase where she received her MFA degree and at SUNY
Stony Brook in the DMA Program. In 1996 she made her New York debut at
Carnegie Recital Hall as an award winner from Artists International and
has been heard with increasing frequency in New York, particularly playing
pieces from the contemporary repertoire. Ms. Suzuki is a member of ST-X
Xenakis Ensemble USA and Absolute Ensemble, and can be heard on Xenakis
Live In New York and Iannisimmo from Vandenburg Records, and
Absolute
Ensemble and Absolute Mix from CCn'C Records.
Ben
Moran - classical guitar
Ben Moran graduated from the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY Purchase,
studying with David Starobin at both institutions. His prior teachers include;
Pasquale Bianculli and William Anderson. A versatile musician, Ben has
performed the classical repertory from Renaissance to Modern, and is also
involved in several popular music projects, playing electric and bass guitars.
His current groups include; Space Opera, and a guitar duo with fellow
Manhattan School alum, Liam Wood. Currently he lives in New York, and is
an editor at Guitar Review, a prestigious classical guitar magazine.
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