Verona Quartet Concert Preview

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Craig DeSilva

Published September 22, 2023 at 11:46 AM HST

Jonathan Dormand, cellist for the Verona Quartet, talked to Evening Concert host Craig DeSilva about the quartet’s concerts in Hawaiʻi featuring a program of Beethoven, Bartok, and Mendelssohn. The concert, presented by Honolulu Chamber Music Series, is Friday, September 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

The quartet will also perform Tuesday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo’s Performing Arts Center in a concert presented by Hawaiʻi Concert Society.

This classical music conversation aired on September 21, 2023. Evening Concert airs weekdays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on HPR-2.

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Craig DeSilva

Craig DeSilva is glad to be playing recorded music on the air instead of playing for a live audience on stage as did when he studied piano. He began piano lessons when he was a child and continued piano studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (where he majored in broadcast journalism and minored in music) under the late Peter Coraggio.

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