Quartetto Gelato: Where Music Meets Theatre
Eclectic Quartet Features Violinist Who Sings Like Pavarotti
MSUM brings an eclectic foursome famous for its musical theatrics and multi-instrument mastery to Hansen Theatre for a Sunday, Oct. 4, matinee performance at 2 p.m.
Quartetto Gelato, based in Toronto, is known for its exotic blend of musical virtuosity in numbers ranging from classical masterworks, operatic arias, tangos, gypsy pyrotechnics and folk songs. All of those styles will appear in their MSUM performance of music from the countries visited in the 1883 odyssey of the famous Orient Express train.
The group consists of a Russian accordion player who has won four International Accordion Competitions; a virtuoso violinist also known for his operatic tenor voice (he was called a credible Pavarotti stand-in by Stereo Review Magazine); an oboist who also plays clarinet, English horn, violin, five-string banjo, acoustic/electric bass, piano, saxophone, flute, guitar and harmonica and works as a dancer, actor, stuntman, singer, choreographer, acrobat and martial-artist; and a very young Canadian cellist who is making a name for herself on the Canadian solo and chamber music circuits. To learn more about the group, go to its website at www.quartettogelato.ca.
Hansen Theatre is located in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. Tickets for the performance are on sale now. MSUM offers discounted tickets to students, seniors, MSUM faculty and alumni. For more information, go to www.mnstate.edu/perform, or call the MSUM Box Office at (218) 477-2271.