The concert is suitable for listeners of all ages with works by Haydn, Beethoven and living Canadian composer, Vivian Fung. “The program invites participants to tap into the present musical moment. Evocative silences in each work draw our ear to what is both around and within us.”

The Katarina String Quartet is currently the “Graduate String Quartet in Residence” at the Juilliard School of Music. Formed in 2022 at the Schulich School of Music in Montreal, KSQ are recent Gold Medal winners of the 2024 St. Paul Chamber Music Competition and first-prize winners of the 2023 Canadian Music Competition. As one of the members grew up in Calgary, the quartet is undertaking a mini tour of Alberta with performances in Camrose, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.