Magellan String Quartet

block_picThe Magellan String Quartet is In Residence at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, and has an active performing schedule between its own chamber music series and visiting artist series throughout the Southeast. The Quartet is also regularly engaged for educational concerts, lecture recitals, master-classes and community outreach programs.

The Magellan String Quartet is proud to represent Georgia Southern University at diplomatic, recruiting, and educational functions in Bulloch County and beyond. Georgia Southern University has sent the Quartet on international performance journeys including concerts in Prague, Vienna and Garmisch-Partirkirchen (Germany), and at Festival Internacional Junio Musical in Xalapa, Mexico.

The Quartet is excited to announce a partnership with the creative and administrative staff of the Georgia Southern Museum; beginning Fall 2008 the Museum and the Quartet will present concerts especially designed for the campus community, for families, and for area elementary school students. Highlights of these engaging concerts include; Handel to Hip Hop , Musical Mazes and Global Navigation with the Magellan String Quartet.

The Quartet performs an extensive range of repertoire, which includes complete cycles of celebrated composers (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) as well as stylistically diverse programs such as "The Evolution of the String Quartet" , "From Yesterday to Y2K", and "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed....Theme and Variation in works from Pachelbel to Paart".

>The Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Georgia composers, including four unique pieces by Georgia Southern University professor Michael Braz, several works by Clyde Tipton (professor at Georgia College and State University), and the String Quartet in a minor by Charles Loeffler (edited by Bruce Gbur, University of Georgia).

The Quartet members are: Jason Economides and Jonathan Aceto, violins; Carl Purdy, viola; Ruth Berry, violoncello. Yvonne Johnson will play viola with the Quartet in 2008 while Carl Purdy is on-leave.