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Penderecki String Quartet - Friday February 27, 2026 - 7:30 pm - THE LOFT

from CA$28.00

Presented by Algoma Conservatory Concerts - Classical Series

The Penderecki String Quartet has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation and is celebrating their 40th anniversary.  The four Penderecki musicians (now originating from Poland, Canada, and USA) bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail).

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Presented by Algoma Conservatory Concerts - Classical Series

The Penderecki String Quartet has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation and is celebrating their 40th anniversary.  The four Penderecki musicians (now originating from Poland, Canada, and USA) bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail).

ARTIST DETAILS BELOW

Ticket Prices (Including all fees):

Adults: $42, 30 and Under: $28

Adult Subscribers (5 or more individual concerts): $33

Purchase Single Tickets OR Subscribe to 5 or more concerts and SAVE.

You can subscribe by adding 5 or more concerts to your cart with the $33 ticket option or go back and click on 2025/2026 Subscriptions at the top of the concert list and subscribe to 5 or more concerts and make your concert choices on a single form that will pop up.

Penderecki String Quartet

Jeremy Bell, violin

Jerzy Kaplanek, violin

Christine Vlajk, viola

Katie Schlaikjer, cello

 

Celebrating their 40th anniversary in the 2026-27 season, the Penderecki String Quartet is based in Waterloo, Ontario where they have been Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1991. Originating from Poland, Canada, and USA, they bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto Globe and Mail). The PSQ's international performing schedule has included appearances in New York (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Hong Kong (Academy for the Arts), Los Angeles (REDCAT Hall at Disney Center), St. Petersburg (Sheremetev Palace), the Adam Festival in New Zealand, and throughout Europe in Rome, Madrid, Paris, Belgrade, Prague, Krakow, Vilnius, and Zagreb.The PSQ has also toured extensively in Mexico, Australia, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, and from coast to coast in Canada.The PSQ’s large discography includes over three dozen recordings including the chamber music repertoire of Beethoven and Brahms as well as the first Canadian release of the six Béla Bartók quartets.Their disc of Marjan Mozetich’s “Lament in the Trampled Garden” won the 2010 JUNO Award for Best Composition, and most recently they were nominated for a 2023 JUNO for their jazz album “Blue” with Diana Panton and Don Thompson. In October 2013, the PSQ worked with Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki on his Third Quartet (2008) and performed it at Symphony Space in New York City on the occasion of his 80th birthday.This followed with the recording of Penderecki’s Third Quartet along with quartets of Norbert Palej on the Marquis label.  In 2022, the PSQ was featured in Howard Shore’s soundtrack to David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future. Dedicated educators, the PSQ have been recent guests at Bloomington Indiana University’s String Academy, the Beijing Conservatory, University of Southern California (Los Angeles), and with their partner universities in Osnabrück, Germany and Lyon, France.