Portland String Quartet

Happy Valentine's Day from the PSQ + Sophia! 💕

This coming week you have THREE chances to hear us play the super romantic, heart-on-your-sleeve Langsamer Satz, which Webern wrote after falling in love with his future wife 😍 (who happened to be his cousin but uh, we don't need to talk about that 😬)

🩷C U there QTs!🩷

Thurs 2/19 - Portland Museum of Art's Third Thursday, 6pm
Sat 2/21 - Mayo Street Arts, 7pm
Sun 2/22 - Brattleboro Music Center, 2pm

🕯️In the Dark, the PSQ's annual winter solstice concert, features a new collaboration - poems written by students of The Telling Room will be read during the performance! These poems were inspired by a workshop the PSQ had at the Telling Room where we explored Bach's Art of the Fugue and themes of light, dark, and solstice.

Maine Public Classical will be featuring this collaboration on their upcoming Night Lights Broadcast, airing several times next week. You can also check out the PSQ's segment on this week's State of the Art with Heather McDougall and Emily Duncan Wilson here: https://www.mainepublic.org/show/state-of-the-art/2025-12-15/sunday-december-14-the-art-of-the-fugue-from-portland-string-quartet

Tickets for In the Dark are currently all reserved, but you can join the waitlist in case space opens up for this free concert on Dec 21st at Mechanics' Hall.

🎻 We are thrilled that Hannah Goldstick will be joining us for "In the Dark," our annual winter solstice concert!

Originally from Phoenix and now based in Jamaica Plain, Hannah is an enthusiastic chamber, orchestral, and solo violinist committed to exploring and sharing all types of music with her community. She is the founder of her own concert series, The Woodlawn Ensemble, and has taken the stage with artists including Nina Lee, Gilles Vonsattel, the Borromeo String Quartet and St. Lawrence String Quartet. She can be heard playing with Palaver Strings, Harvard Baroque, and other ensembles throughout New England.

🎧 When she's not concertizing with friends and colleagues, Hannah enjoys long walks and a good album.

Hear her play with the PSQ on December 21 at Mechanics' Hall in Portland!



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🔥Our season premiere "Pure Imagination" was a hit!
In case you missed it (or want to relive the magic), we are delighted that Maine Stage from Maine Public will be broadcasting our live-recorded performance TONIGHT, September 24, from 8-10pm ET!
📻Support local radio and the PSQ by tuning in this evening!