Mainly Mozart Ensemble comes to Fallbrook

FALLBROOK – Starting off the new year, Fallbrook Music Society will present the Hausmann Quartet Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. at the Fallbrook Public Library. The concert is free to the general public. No tickets are required.

Hausmann Quartet are the artists-in-residence at San Diego State University and the ensemble-in-residence at Mainly Mozart.

“I am thrilled to bring such exceptional musicians to Fallbrook for a free concert,” Ann Murray, executive director of Fallbrook Music Society, said. “Nowhere in San Diego can you hear this caliber of performance at no cost.”

The members of the Hausmann Quartet are violinists Isaac Allen and Bram Goldstein, violist Angela Choong and cellist Alex Greenbaum. The quartet is named after Robert Hausmann, the 19th century German cellist and founding member of the Joachim Quartet. Its members have trained at the Longy School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School.

The concert features works for string quartet, including Haydn’s Quartet No. 14 in E-flat, Opus 9, which was written during the period when Haydn emerged as a great composer. The program also features Jessie Montgomery’s “Source Code,” which was written in 2013. Montgomery is a composer-in-residence with Sphinx Virtuosi, a multicultural touring ensemble that has previously appeared on the Fallbrook Music Society’s annual concert season.

The final work is Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 9 which took three years to finally finish. It is widely believed that Shostakovich poured all his sadness, anger and boldest musical ideas into chamber pieces like this quartet as his symphonies were subjected to scrutiny and censure by the Soviet government.

“This concert will give our audience a chance to see the ‘spectrum,’ how repertoire for string quartet has evolved over time. Each work is incredibly unique and incredibly powerful,” Murray said.

The program preview and musician introductions start at 2:30 p.m. More information is available through http://www.FallbrookMusicSociety.org.