Tickets Go On Sale May 12th, 2025

Summer of Angels Chamber Music Festival
July 10th - July 13th, 2025
The Huntington/Rothenberg Hall

CELEBRATING THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET

You are cordially invited to come join us for the upcoming Summer of Angels Chamber Music Festival at the beautiful Rothenberg Hall at the Huntington Gardens. Inspired by the Hollywood String Quartet we will be honoring their legacy by performing works from their legendary Capitol Records discography. Leonard Slatkin will introduce and speak at each of these four concerts in a tribute to his parents Felix Slatkin and Eleanor Aller, the first violinist and cellist of that famed quartet. Joining the New Hollywood String Quartet- violinists Tereza Stanislav and Rafael Rishik, violist Robert Brophy and cellist Andrew Shulman are some of the most accomplished chamber musicians from around the world. We are thrilled that pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, cellist Alban Gerhardt, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama and pianist Olga Zado will be joining us.

In a 2024 review of the summer festival, Mark Swed wrote: “The New Hollywood String Quartet takes its inspiration from the famed Hollywood String Quartet, composed of studio musicians in the 1940s and ’50s. It had the reputation as America’s finest string quartet for its superbly silky sound and capacity for vivid drama. Its unerringly sublime Schubert and penetrating late-Beethoven recordings remind us that the golden era of soundtracks is owed in large part to such studio musicians. That’s still true with the New Hollywood, formed in 2001, four decades after the original Hollywood Quartet disbanded.”

THE NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET

TEREZA STANISLAV and RAFAEL RISHIK - Violins

ROBERT BROPHY - Viola     

ANDREW SHULMAN - Cello

FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS

JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET - Piano

ALBAN GERHARDT - Cello

OLGA ZADO - Piano

NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA - Viola

FEATURED CONCERT WORKS:

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY  (1840 -1893) STRING QUARTET NO.1  in D MAJOR       

ALEXANDER BORODIN (1833-1887) STRING QUARTET No.2 in D MAJOR  

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) STRING QUINTET in C MAJOR D.956                  

HUGO WOLF (1860-1903) ITALIAN SERENADE

JOAQUIN TURINA (1882-1949) LA ORACION DEL TORERO

CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890) PIANO QUINTET in F MINOR                                     

WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983) STRING QUARTET NO.2 in A MINOR                         

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) STRING SEXTET - VERKLÄRTE NACHT                      

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) PIANO QUINTET in E FLAT MAJOR Op.44         

JOHANNES  BRAHMS (1833-1897) PIANO QUINTET in F MINOR Op.34