Verona Quartet & Alex Fiterstein

The Verona Quartet and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein join forces for an evening of vivid, narrative-driven chamber music at Dumbarton Concerts Gallery. The program juxtaposes string quartets by two composers equally renowned for their film scores—Erich Korngold and Philip Glass—with Johannes Brahms’s late-career Clarinet Quintet, a warmly nostalgic work that gives the clarinet a poignant, melancholic voice. The Verona Quartet, praised by *The New York Times* as an “outstanding ensemble… cohesive yet full of temperament,” and Fiterstein, an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient lauded for his “dazzling” palette of colors, bring both youthful energy and mature insight to this repertoire.

When: Saturday, February 27, 2027, at 7:30 p.m.

Venue: Dumbarton Concerts Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Program: Erich Wolfgang Korngold – String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 26; Philip Glass – String Quartet No. 3 (“Mishima”); Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115

Performers: Verona Quartet: Jonathan Ong (violin), Dorothy Ro (violin), Abigail Rojansky (viola), Jonathan Dormand (cello); Alex Fiterstein (clarinet)

Tickets: $60 for live in-person attendance; purchase available on the Dumbarton Concerts website.

Artist Background: The Verona 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. They have won top prizes at major international competitions and released multiple acclaimed albums, including *SHATTER* which reached #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. Alexander Fiterstein is Professor of Clarinet and Chair of Winds at the Peabody Institute, a first-prize winner of the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition, and a frequent collaborator with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Both artists maintain active touring and recording schedules.

Note: The Verona Quartet and Alex Fiterstein are both music educators (Verona at Oberlin, Fiterstein at Peabody), and this program reflects their ability to bring depth and storytelling to canonical works.