Verona Quartet with Ben Bliss

About this event

The Verona Quartet is recognized as a premier ensemble of its generation, praised by The New York Times as an “outstanding ensemble… cohesive yet full of temperament.” Recipients of the 2020 Chamber Music America Cleveland Quartet Award and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association’s 2025 Educator Award, the ensemble has earned a reputation for its “bold interpretive strength” (Calgary Herald) and “opulent sonority” (The Strad). The Quartet serves on the faculty of Oberlin College and Conservatory as Quartet-in-Residence and as Artistic Directors of the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance. The ensemble’s rise to international prominence was fueled by a swift succession of top prize wins at Wigmore Hall, Melbourne, Osaka, M-Prize, and Fischoff International Chamber Music Competitions, as well as the 2015 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Ben Bliss was most recently praised as “a peer of the best Toms in the opera’s seven-decade history” (Voix des Arts) in The Rake’s Progress at the Metropolitan Opera. The 2026–27 season sees him at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, returning to the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich as Alfredo in La Traviata, and at the Metropolitan Opera as Nikolaus Sprink in Kevin Puts’s Silent Night. This performance is part of ProMusica’s 2026-2027 season. Free and open to the public; donations appreciated.

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