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December 11, 2023

For Immediate Release

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents PUBLIQuartet and Harlem Quartet on Saturday, January 13, 2024

Baruch PAC's concert series continues through the Spring with Gilmore Young Artist Maxim Lando, Heartbeat Opera's Spring Festival, and classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang

On Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 7 pm, Baruch Performing Arts Center presents a double-bill of two internationally-renowned ensembles: PUBLIQuartet and Harlem Quartet at Engelman Recital Hall. Tickets are $45, available on Baruch PAC's website.

Multi-Grammy nominated PUBLIQuartet has built a reputation for improvising, blending genres, and highlighting American multiculturalism. They are winners of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music and the Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award.

Harlem Quartet has collaborated with a wide range of artists, from Chick Corea to Itzhak Perlman and Jeremy Denk. Harlem Quartet's album with Corea and Gary Burton won multiple Grammy Awards, and the group's mission to advance diversity in classical music has brought them around the world; including a performance at The White House and a South African tour.

Baruch Performing Arts Center is at 55 Lexington Avenue (enter on 25th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, on the south side of the street) in the heart of Manhattan. Praised for its superb acoustics, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall has been called "a perfect hall for chamber music" by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. 

Photos from top: PUBLIQuartet; Harlem Quartet

January 13, 2023 at 7 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents:

PUBLIQuartet and Harlem Quartet

Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

(enter on 25th St. between 3rd and Lexington Aves)

Tickets are $45 available at bpac.baruch.cuny.edu

January 13: PUBLIQuartet and Harlem Quartet (double-bill)

February 9: Pianist Maxim Lando (Gilmore Young Artist)

March: artist and date to be revealed soon

April 2-14: Heartbeat Opera Spring Festival: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Extinctionist, a world premiere by Daniel Schlosberg

April 19: Classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang

Watch this space for complete spring season details!

Applauded by The Washington Post as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by The New Yorker as “independent-minded,” multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America’s prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music. PQ’s genre-bending programs range from newly commissioned pieces to re-imaginations of classical works featuring open-form improvisations that expand the techniques and aesthetic of the traditional string quartet. 

Harlem Quartet advances diversity in classical music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. Their mission to share their passion with a wider audience has taken them around the world; from a 2009 performance at The White House for President Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama, to a highly successful tour of South Africa in 2012, and numerous venues in between. The musically versatile ensemble has performed with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, Carter Brey, Fred Sherry, Misha Dichter, Jeremy Denk, and Paquito D’Rivera. The quartet also collaborated with jazz masters Chick Corea and Gary Burton on the album Hot House, a 2013 multi-Grammy Award winning release.