Pro Arte Quartet Performs at Hope United Church

Door Concerts Inc. opens its 25th season Oct. 21 with a performance by the Pro Arte Quartet and a pre-concert presentation by Russ Dagon, retired principal clarinetist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and retired professor of music at Northwestern University and Birch Creek Music Performance Center.

Pro Arte Quartet is the official quartet-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the oldest-known string quartet in the world. The ensemble has been in continuous existence since 1911-12, when its founding students at the Brussels Conservatory in Belgium organized the ensemble.

Pro Arte first traveled to America for a tour in 1926, where it played at the inauguration of the Hall of Music in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Following that, the ensemble returned to the North America for 30 tours before first visiting Madison in 1938.

The current members of the quartet are violinists David Perry and Suzanne Beia, violist Sally Chisholm and cellist Parry Karp.

The performance begins at 7 pm at Hope United Church of Christ, located at 141 South 12th Avenue in Sturgeon Bay. The pre-concert presentation begins at 6:45 pm.

Subscriptions to the five-concert season are $50, and $15 for nonsubscribers. Donations are also appreciated.

For more information, or for tickets, call Jim Ebbeson at 920.743.3755 or Sara Anschutz at 920.737.4809.