UP Quartet

Courtesy of the artist, David Felberg

Making a list of the best classical players in Burque necessarily starts with the commanding Felberg family. Patriarch Leonard is a distinguished professor emeritus whose work on the violin has been compared to that of Fritz Kreisler; his wife and lifelong companion Arlette is a pianist whose wide-ranging work includes stints at the June Music Festival, the Santa Fe Symphony and the UNM department of music. And their sons? Well, James, a great instrumentalist on his own accord, is an emergency room physician. And of course David Felberg is the founder of Chatter ABQ, an Albuquerque art music collective with teeth. David and his colleagues in the UP Quartet—Shanti Randall, Dana Winograd and Carla Kountoupes—perform a recital featuring Jewish composers on Saturday, Feb. 10. This event occurs at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque. The program includes an amazing array of intense and entertaining work for string quartets, like Mendelssohn's String Quartet in A Minor, Gershwin's Lullaby and John Zorn's Kol Nidre. That's how we roll in Burque; total command of the repertoire rocks—from romantic to modernist and PoMo too—even in the classical world. Tickets cost $20 to $25 and the curtain rises at 7:30pm. (August March)