Garrison String Quartet Performance

Join Arlington Center for the Arts in welcoming Brookline-based Garrison Quartet as they present an evening of music amongst the works in the Back to the Drawing Board exhibition.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here. Doors are at 6:30PM and the performance will begin at 7pm.

This performance will spotlight the fascinating artistic legacy of the Mendelssohn family and, in particular, the connection between music and visual art in their lives. Fanny Mendelssohn, an increasingly celebrated composer whose works were historically overshadowed by her brother Felix, will be featured through her colorful and deeply romantic String Quartet in E-flat Major. Fanny’s quartet is complemented by Felix’s reaction to her death in his stormy f minor String Quartet, and the program is rounded out by Devin Cholodenko’s new piece, Cracks in the Sky.

Garrison Quartet presents dynamic programming that highlights essential but underperformed voices, while contextualizing repertoire in ways that engage both new and seasoned audiences. The quartet has performed throughout the region, including at NEC’s Jordan Hall in Boston and Red Door Chamber Music in Provincetown, MA, and is passionate about expanding access to chamber music through curated thematic programs.

Its members — violinists Christopher Nelson and Carson Howell, violist Sachin Shukla, and cellist Tyler Michael James — perform with orchestras throughout New England, including the Boston Philharmonic, Boston Festival Orchestra, Albany Symphony, and Cape Symphony, and are faculty members at many of Boston’s community music schools, including Powers Music School, Attacca School of Music, Project STEP, Boston String Academy, and the Boston Music Project.