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The Selini Quartet is a prize-winning group formed in Vienna in 2017, comprised of four young European musicians, Nadia Kalmykova, Ljuba Kalmykova, Loredana Apetrei and Marta Potulska. They have won several prizes in international music competitions and are featured currently in the New Austrian Sound of Music (NASOM).

Their live classical string concert at the Embassy of Austria will feature works by Julius Bürger, Erwin Schulhoff and Franz Schubert. Bürger, the Austrian composer, pianist and conductor fled Austria for the U.S. after the Anschluss. His compositions first gained recognition when Bürger was almost ninety-years old, as only then were his works finally performed publicly. The second part of the concert is dedicated to the famous Five Pieces for String Quartet by the Czech-born composer Erwin Schulhoff who was encouraged by Dvořák to study music. The Selinis will end the evening on a high note with a composition by Franz Schubert.

This concert is being presented in cooperation with the Exilarte Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Exilarte is a research center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Its objective is to restore into the collective memory composers and performers who were persecuted, forced into exile, or murdered during National Socialism. Through its acquisition and collection of estates, musicological research, exhibitions, concerts and symposia, as well as seminars for students, Exilarte is returning to musical life those who were silenced; recalling musicians who were forgotten and filling a historic void.

PROGRAM
Julius Bürger: String Quartet No. 2
Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Franz Schubert: Rosamunde Quartet