Griffon String Quartet Begins Second Season of Performances and Outreach

(From left) Vinicius Sant’Ana, Blakeley Menghini, Roy Meyer and Ryan Louie. Photo by Ben Menghini.

Midsummer’s Music’s resident Griffon String Quartet will celebrate its second season of concerts and community and educational events with a series of performances throughout northeast Wisconsin featuring Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110, and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D.810, “Death and the Maiden.”

The quartet will perform Oct. 10, 7 pm, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sister Bay; Oct. 11, 7:30 pm, at St. Norbert College’s Dudley Birder Hall in De Pere; Oct. 12, 7 pm, at First Presbyterian Church in Green Bay; and Oct. 13, 6 pm, with the Green Bay Chamber Music Society in Green Bay. It will also perform a selection of movements from the Shostakovich and Schubert pieces in a Library Live presentation Oct. 12, 1-2 pm, at the Door County Library in Sturgeon Bay.

Tickets for the St. Luke’s concert are available at midsummersmusic.com; tickets for the St. Norbert performance are available at snc.edu/tickets. Call 920.854.7088 to learn more about the First Presbyterian concert and membership in the Green Bay Chamber Music Society. Contact the Door County Library for details about Library Live.