Maiastra Chamber Concert at The Menuhin Hall

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Maiastra performs three celebrated string quartets, directed by multi-award-winning violinist and trustee of The Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust, Arisa Fujita. The first piece is Wolf's lilting one-movement Italian Serenade for String Quartet, followed by the ominous String Quartet No. 8 by Shostakovich. The final item is Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 127. The first of his 'late period' quartets, the composition echoes this anxious and tumultuous time of Beethoven's life, with dramatic and sudden polarity of characters. The Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust, under the name Maiastra, provides courses for emerging young professionals who are hoping to make chamber music a major part of their career.