Upcoming Concerts
Anton Bruckner: A Celebration
On September 4, 2024, Anton Bruckner would have been 200 years old. On this occasion, the Fernwood String Quartet is going to perform Bruckner’s famous String Quintet in F Major, his only major work for chamber music. This wonderful music - less ‘bulky’ than his symphonies, but still showing off the essence of his composition techniques - was written in 1878/79, in between his 5th and 6th symphonies.
Candlelight: Tribute to Nirvana
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Nirvana at The Abbey under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Opera Orlando - Mozart & Mariachi
The Fernwood Quartet will again be part of Opera Orlando’s annual fundraiser with Mozartean opera singers, musicians, and an elegant candlelight dinner in the state of the art, acoustically ideal setting of Steinmetz Hall.
Candlelight: Favorite Anime Themes
The Fernwood Quartet presents a program of favorite Anime themes at the Azalea Lodge in Mead Gardens.
Two shows: 6:30 pm and 8:45 pm.
OCCO Deconstructed
Members of the Fernwood String Quartet will participate in the “OCCO deconstructed” concert where chamber music compositions by Alex Burtzos, Sharon Omens, Troy Gifford, Dan Crozier, Charles Griffin, and Christian Yom (National Young Composers Challenge winner) will be performed.
Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi under the gentle glow of candlelight.
2 shows: 7 pm and 9 pm
Candlelight: Favorite Anime Themes
The Fernwood Quartet presents a program of favorite Anime themes at the Azalea Lodge in Mead Gardens.
Two shows: 6:30pm and 9:00pm.
Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi under the gentle glow of candlelight.
2 shows: 6:30 pm and 9 pm
Now and Not Yet
The Fernwood String Quartet are participating in this event that features performing and visual artists presenting the original works they have cultivated over the course of their fellowship with Arts Fellowship Orlando.
Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi under the gentle glow of candlelight.
2 shows: 6:30 pm and 9 pm
The Mozart Dinner (Opera Orlando)
The Fernwood String Quartet will provide musical entertainment at Opera Orlando’s “The Mozart Dinner” at Steinmetz Hall.
National Young Composers Challenge Composium
The Fernwood String Quartet will participate in the performance of Sansori by Christian Yom, a winning chamber composition of the National Young Composers Challenge.
Candlelight: Favorite Anime Themes
The Fernwood Quartet presents a program of favorite Anime themes at the Azalea Lodge in Mead Gardens.
Two shows: 6:30pm and 9:00pm.
Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at The Veranda at Thornton Park under the gentle glow of candlelight.
Jan 19: 2 shows: 7pm and 9pm
Feb 7: 2 shows: 7pm and 9pm
Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons & More
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Orlando. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Vivaldi at The Veranda at Thornton Park under the gentle glow of candlelight.
2 shows: 7pm and 9pm
Candlelight: Mozart Requiem and more
The Fernwood String Quartet will play an arrangement of Mozart’s Requiem and his famous Eine kleine Nachtmusik at The Azalea Lodge in Mead Gardens under the gentle glow of candlelight.
2 shows: 6:30pm and 9pm
Chairman's Dinner at the Annual Joint Meeting of the S.E. US / Japan Association
The Fernwood Quartet plays a collection of Japanese Anime music at the 16th Chairman's Dinner at the 44th Annual Joint Meeting of the S.E. US / Japan Association.
Central Florida Composer's Forum's Salon Concert
As part of the CF2’s salon concert, the Fernwood String Quartet plays “Elations” by Paul August Sanders.
Fernwood at the University Club
In our summer 2022 program, the Fernwood String Quartet will present Hugo Wolf’s boysterous ‘Italian Serenade’ and Robert Schumann’s exuberant second string quartet op 41/2, before it moves from the 19th to the 20th century with Serguei Prokofiev’s neo-classical, emotionally intense first string quartet op. 50.
Fernwood at Timucua
In our summer 2022 program, the Fernwood String Quartet will present Hugo Wolf’s boysterous ‘Italian Serenade’ and Robert Schumann’s exuberant second string quartet op 41/2, before it moves from the 19th to the 20th century with Serguei Prokofiev’s neo-classical, emotionally intense first string quartet op. 50.
Opera Orlando: The Mozart Dinner at Steinmetz Hall
The Fernwood String Quartet plays at the Opera Orlando “Mozart Dinner” and fundraiser.
Travel back in time and enjoy an evening unlike any other in Orlando with Mozartean opera singers, a string quartet, and an elegant candlelight dinner in the state of the art, acoustically ideal setting of Steinmetz Hall.
National Young Composers Challenge Composium
The Fernwood String Quartet will perform Needles to the Ground by Jane Meenaghan, a winning chamber composition of the National Young Composers Challenge Composium 2020.
The Fernwood String Quartet at the University Club
The Fernwood Quartet will return to the University Club of Winter Park with a program of romantic and early modern composers.
Fernwood at Timucua
The Fernwood String Quartet is back at Timucua with a program around Felix Mendelssohn’s passionate string quartet op 13 in A Minor and Dmitri Shostakovich’s short and intense string quartet #7.
We’re playing two shows, one at 7pm, another one at 8:30pm.
Admission is free, donations encouraged!
Death of Ivan Ilych
Members of the Fernwood Quartet will participate in this Opera Orlando production of a one-act chamber opera composed by John Young. Shows on Feb 19/7:30pm, and Feb 21/5pm.
Central Florida Composers Forum Concert
The program promises to be a buffet of styles and moods from some of the best known composers living and working in the Orlando area. Alex Burtzos’s OMAHA (all the things you could be you are you were) is a piece about memories - their creation, retention, and ultimate dissolution. Troy Gifford’s Lumina is a lyrical and gorgeous serenade. Charlie Griffin’s Billing’s Portrait pays tribute to the father of the American choral tradition in a set that reimagines three of William Billings’ best known pieces, including the fiery Let Tyrants Shake.
Voorn and Mozart
This program will juxtapose music by W. A. Mozart with works by Frederic Voorn. The Fernwood Quartet will start with Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor K 546, followed by Frederic Voorn’s String Quartet. For the second half of the program, the composer will join the quartet on the piano and perform a movement of Voorn’s own piano concerto. The program will conclude with Mozart’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet of his famous piano concerto K 414 in A Major.
Frederick Voorn and Fernwood Quartet
This program will juxtapose music by W. A. Mozart with works by Frederic Voorn. The Fernwood Quartet will start with Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor K 546, followed by Frederic Voorn’s String Quartet. For the second half of the program, the composer will join the quartet on the piano and perform a movement of Voorn’s own piano concerto. The program will conclude with Mozart’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet of his famous piano concerto K 414 in A Major.
Frederick Voorn and Fernwood Quartet
This program will juxtapose music by W. A. Mozart with works by Frederic Voorn. The Fernwood Quartet will start with Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue in C Minor K 546, followed by Frederic Voorn’s String Quartet. For the second half of the program, the composer will join the quartet on the piano and perform a movement of Voorn’s own piano concerto. The program will conclude with Mozart’s own arrangement for piano and string quartet of his famous piano concerto K 414 in A Major.
Air from another Planet
Together with the wonderful soprano Samantha Barnes Daniel, we played Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op. 10 (1908). In this work, where Schoenberg finally breaks with classical tonality, the quartet is joined by a soprano in the final two movements.
The concert opened with Mozart's String Quartet in d Minor, K 421.
Air from another Planet
Together with the wonderful soprano Samantha Barnes Daniel, we played Arnold Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op. 10 (1908). In this work, where Schoenberg finally breaks with classical tonality, the quartet is joined by a soprano in the final two movements.
The evening opened with Mozart's String Quartet in d Minor, K 421.