Cuarteto Latinoamericano Farewell Benefit Concert & Reception
August 22, 2025
Cocktails 5:00 PM - Concert 6:00 PM
Home of Steve Ketterer and Ignasio Ramírez
Invitation Only. $250 per person. RSVP by July 20. Please contact Bethany Franklin at operations@musicmountain.org or by phone (860) 836-6296.
You may submit your event donation HERE. Please confirm the number of guests attending in the space for Donation Notes.
Program
Luigi BOCCHERINI String Quartet in A Major G. 206
Joaquín GUTIERREZ HERAS Clarinet Quintet, in a collaboration with Music Mountain Artistic Director Oskar Espina Ruiz
Astor PIAZZOLLA Four for Tango
Antonín DVORAK String Quartet in F Major Op. 96 “American”
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
“Vital, fresh, imaginative music and sensitive, brilliant performance”
— The Washington Post
Cuarteto Latinoamericano, is one of the world's most renowned classical music ensembles, for more than forty years the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than a hundred works written for them and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre. Winners of the 2012 and 2016 Latin Grammys for Best Classical Recordings, they have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award and three times received Chamber Music America/ASCAP's "Most Adventurous Programming" Award. Read on at cuartetolatinoamericano.com
About Music Mountain
Since 1930, generations of music lovers have come to Music Mountain for an exceptional concert experience, and today, audiences continue to praise the outstanding quality and consistency of the events at Music Mountain, the exceptional acoustics of air-conditioned Gordon Hall, and the beauty and peaceful serenity of Music Mountain’s mountaintop grounds. Recent concertgoers see Music Mountain as “a peaceful green oasis” and highlight its “amazing venue, ambience, and experience.”
Music Mountain, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, began as the unique vision of Jacques Gordon, Chicago Symphony concertmaster from 1921 to 1930 and the founding first violinist of the Gordon String Quartet, one of the leading quartets of its time. The buildings at Music Mountain form a well-designed campus in the Colonial Revival style. They were built by Sears, Roebuck & Company’s prefabricated housing division and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.