Verona Quartet To Perform 3 World Premieres, including centennial commissions at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery

The Verona Quartet will premiere Texu Kim’s string quartet Ritus Sanitatem, co-commissioned by Texas Performing Arts (performance March 3) and the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery (performance March 8), Cheng Jin Koh’s Mountain of Echoing Halls for string quartet and yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer) for a world premiere at the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery March 8, and Derek David’s String Quartet No. 4, “Kaddish” on March 18 at MIT. The Smithsonian premieres were highlighted with multimedia elements as part of the celebrations for its centennial, see here.