Attacca String Quartet and Venezuelan composer headline Chamber Series

COURTESY PHOTO Attacca String Quartet

The Chamber Music Society of Southwest Florida hosts the Juilliard-based Attacca String Quartet March 31 at the Alliance for the Arts' Foulds Theatre at 7:30 p.m. All tickets are $20.

The 2006 Winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize, the Attacca String Quartet was a finalist at the International Banff String Quartet Competition in Canada in August. It was also a finalist in the International Chesapeake Chamber Competition. The quartet made its Carnegie Hall debut this season with its mentors the Juilliard String Quartet.

The group will perform Webern's "Six Bagetelles Bartok String Quartet No. 4," as well as the Kelly-Marie Murphy's "Dark Energy" and Reinaldo Moya's "String Quartet No. 1," both being regional premieres written within the last year.

Moya received special praise from the

NY Times for his "String Quartet No. 1" world-premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Venezuelan composer graduated from the world-renowned Youth Orchestra program El Sistema where he played violin under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Music Director elect. The ASCAP 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipient and Friedman Memorial Composition prize-winner, Moya will be present at the concert to discuss his experiences and his music.

This marks the third concert of the Chamber Music Society of Southwest Florida's inaugural season. Founded by mezzo-soprano and Artistic Director Janelle McCoy, the Chamber Music Society will present a total of four chamber music concerts this season

that will include international chamber groups, Grammy-winning composers and several regional premieres.

if you go

>>What: Chamber music series; the Attacca String Quartet and composer Reinaldo Moya

>>When: Monday March 31 at 7:30 p.m.

>>Where: The Foulds Theatre in the Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Blvd.

>>Cost: $20

>>Information: For tickets go to www.chambersociety.org