Ithaca College

The Ariadne String Quartet, an ensemble in residence at the School of Music, will give a free concert on Sunday, April 9, at 4:00 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. Their program will feature the “Lyric Suite” by Alban Berg, and Franz Schubert’s Quintet in C major. They will be joined for the quintet by cellist Heidi Hoffman, a lecturer in music performance at the School of Music.

Brought together by their mutual love for chamber music, the Ariadne String Quartet was formed in 1994 by members of the string faculty at the Ithaca College School of Music. In their inaugural year they performed in New York City’s Alice Tully Hall in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of Ithaca College. They perform regularly at Ithaca College as well as on recital series throughout the region. Violinists Susan Waterbury and Rebecca Ansel, violist Debra Moree, and cellist Elizabeth Simkin bring to the ensemble a broad and diverse background in chamber music that has taken them around the globe and back.