The Fry Street String Quartet began its International career in 2002 as cultural ambassadors to the Balkan States, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State, and as a result, have played for audiences from Carnegie to Sarajevo.
The group is currently on an extended tour of the Midwest and will appear in International Falls at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Backus Community Center Auditorium. Fry Street String Quartet takes the stage as the next performance in the Border Concert Association series.
The quartet consists of Robert Walters and Rebecca McFaul on violins, Bradley Ottesen on viola and Anne Francis Bayless on the cello.
“Fry Street” was the location of he group’s first rehearsal space in the Chicago neighborhood once ruled by Al Capone. Their founding was in 1997 under the mentorship of Marc Johnson, cellist of the renowned Vermeer Quartet.
The group has received rave reviews as prizewinners in several major competitions including the Millennium Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2000.
The quartet traveled to Israel to participate in the International Encounters Chamber Music Seminar in 2000, where they studied with Isaac Stern. He invited the quartet to the Isaac Stern Chamber Music workshop in New York City and subsequently arranged for the quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2001.
For more information, call Backus at 285-7225.
