Music by Haydn, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the composers on the program when the Tantalus String Quartet perform at Willow Farm, Sunday afternoon Sept. 20 at 2:30 p.m.
Last year's Willow Farm highly successful debut concert by this fine Vancouver-based ensemble prompted Willow Farm owners Stephanie Crane and Janice Pentland-Smith to invite them again.
The Willow Farm setting is idyllic: five acres of forest and landscaped gardens. The members of the Tantalus Quartet are four of Vancouver's finest string players:Rebecca Whitling; violin; Karen Gerbrecht, violin; Isabelle Rolland, viola; Heather Hay, cello. Rebecca Whitling plays in the first violin section of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and was principal second violin of the recently disbanded CBC Radio Orchestra. Gerbrecht isassociate principal second violin with the Vancouver Symphony and is also on the faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music. Former assistant principal viola with the Victoria Symphony. Rolland is a member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and performs with the Vancouver Symphony. Hay, a former member of the Purcell String Quartetis assistant principal cello of the Vancouver Opera.
Music on the Rock at Willow Farm takes place, rain or shine, at: 6739 Norwest Bay Road, West Sechelt. Tickets: $20, available at the Willow Farm garden gate on concert day, or call 604-885-3989.
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