The Julstrom String Quartet, the string quartet-in-residence at Western Illinois University, is named after the late long-time Chair of the Western Illinois Music Faculty — Clifford Julstrom. It provides an ongoing presence in the Faculty Chamber Music Series, and gives concerts and clinics on campus and throughout the region.

Sample programs:

April 6, 2016. Recital, COFAC Recital Hall, Macomb, IL
PROGRAM:

Suite Astor – Astor Piazzolla

String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 – Felix Mendelssohn
I. Allegro vivace assai
II. Allegro assai
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Allegro molto

The Julstrom String Quartet
Julieta Mihai, violin
Chino Soberano, violin
István Szabó, viola
Moisès Molina, violoncello

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December 2, 2015

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Please join us next Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:30pm for a special Faculty Chamber Music Series Concert, featuring members of the Julstrom String Quartet with guests John McMurtery, flute and Tammie Walker, piano – also on the program, the Camerata Woodwind Quintet with guest Minjung Seo, piano. The Camerata Woodwind Quintet will also perform the American premiere of Kazimierz Machala’s Celtic Scents – Suite No. 2 (for Woodwind Quintet, Guitar and Double Bass) with guests George Turner, guitar, Matthew Hughes, double bass and the composer Kazimierz Machala.

Members of the JULSTROM STRING QUARTET
Ion-Alexandru Malaimare, violin
Julieta Mihai, viola
Moisés Molina, cello
with guest
Tammie Walker, piano

PROGRAM:

Quartet for Flute and Strings in D Major, K. 285 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Rondo
Members of the Julstrom String Quartet
with John McMurtery, flute

Piano Quartet in A Minor – Gustav Mahler
I. Nicht zu schnell
Members of the Julstrom String Quartet
with Tammie Walker, piano

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MACOMB, IL – -Western Illinois University’s in-residence faculty ensemble, The Julstrom String Quartet, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, 2012 in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

Their program will include “String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 ‘Rasumovksy'” by Ludwig van Beethoven and “String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15,” by Jim Jacobsen.

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MACOMB, IL – The in-residence Julstrom String Quartet will perform a chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, 2011 in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall.

The program will include “String Quartet in F Major” by Maurice Ravel; and “String Quartet for the Lake” by WIU School of Music composer James Caldwell, which will be a premiere performance by the Julstrom String Quartet.

“The two-movement work uses a more severe, chromatic language than is typical of my recent music, but I can hear many of the same kinds of interests: combining and recombining fragments of distinctive material to create shifting and flexible textures, idiomatic and colorful instrumental writing, and layers of activity going on at different speeds at the same time,” Caldwell said of his 1980 composition. “I grew up visiting my grandparents near Lake Huron, and I was living in Evanston (IL), near Lake Michigan, when I composed the quartet. While the movements are not programmatic or pictorial, the music was informed by my reflections on the different moods and the many kinds of wave motion of the lakes.”

Named after the late, longtime chair of Western Illinois’ music department (now School of Music) Clifford Julstrom, the quartet contributes to the Bureau of Cultural Affairs “Faculty Chamber Music Series” and gives concerts and clinics on campus and throughout the region.