Rosamunde String Quartet to perform Oct. 25 in Lewes

Coastal Concerts will present the internationally renowned Rosamunde String Quartet at 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 25, at Bethel United Methodist Church, Fourth and Market streets, Lewes. The musical program will include Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Quartet in D major, Opus 18 No. 3”; George Walker’s “String Quartet No. 1”; and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80.”

The quartet includes musicians from some of the world’s leading orchestras: Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic; Shanshan Yao, member of the Kammerakademie Potsdam and former violinist in the New York Philharmonic; Teng Li, principal viola of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Nathan Vickery, cellist in the New York Philharmonic.

Rosamunde was formed in 2015 as a passion project of its all-star members. The quartet creates a distinctive sound and unanimity of expression by uniting their experiences as internationally touring soloists and orchestra musicians.

Its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., and the Juilliard School in New York City.

The group has performed collaboratively with such artists as pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman and cellist Peter Wiley. As part of its touring activities, the quartet has conducted masterclasses and residencies at such music schools and festivals as Curtis, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Morningside Music Bridge and the University of Toronto.

Coastal Concerts is supported in part by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The division promotes Delaware arts events on DelawareScene.com.

Tickets can be purchased at coastalconcerts.org and also at the door the day of the concert.