The popular midday miniconcert series returns to Door County starting October 22.
Sister Bay, Wis. (October 14, 2024) – The Griffon String Quartet’s popular free “Gather with the Griffon” miniconcert series returns to Door County, WI, starting October 22. Designed for midday audiences, the programs engage the mind and spirit through music and conversation.
The one-hour Gather with the Griffon miniconcert starts at 1:00pm at MUSE, a community music school and performance venue in Sturgeon Bay. According to the Muse website, “MUSE is a hub—a central location—where those with different musical interests, abilities and skills can meet, learn from one another, inspire each other, and further the already incredible musical community that exists in Door County.”
The October 22 concert features selections from Austrian composer Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3 “Rider,” contemporary American composer Caroline Shaw’s Ritornello, and Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1. The musicians are Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violins, Oryann Tsaig, viola, and Jesse Nummelin, cello.
Programs are funded in part by grants from the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and Little Eddie Big Cup (Door County Community Foundation).
One of the most vibrant and engaging quartets of its generation, the Griffon String Quartet was formed in the fall of 2018 as a collaboration led by Midsummer’s Music. GSQ enriches the lives of children and adults throughout northeast Wisconsin through concerts, workshops, and music education outreach. The extraordinary musicians, who have performed with orchestras and ensembles around the globe, are equally dedicated to music education and inspiring the next generation of music lovers. Each member of the Griffon String Quartet has advanced degrees and significant professional experience, both as educators and performers, and they have been recognized for “their youthful vigor, which is absolutely infectious!”
Midsummer’s Music was co-founded in 1990 by Jim and Jean Berkenstock, long-time Door County summer residents and principal orchestral players with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. What began as two concerts among friends has become one of the Midwest’s most anticipated chamber music series, bringing thousands of chamber music enthusiasts from around the globe to the magical Door County Peninsula.
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