2025 Season Opened on January 26
Concerts at Maritime Museum of San Diego Offer a Unique Mix of Music on the Water
The Hausmann Quartet and Maritime Museum of San Diego are excited to partner to present the tenth season of Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the Museum’s historic world-class vessels, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay.
“The Hausmann Quartet is one of a handful of string quartets…that move with fluent ease from Classical-period works (Haydn is one of their specialties) to contemporary works by living composers.” -San Diego Union-Tribune
“As Hausmann has amply demonstrated in its long-running project to play all of the Haydn string quartets at the San Diego Maritime Museum, these musicians matched enviable technical prowess with ardent conviction.” – San Diego Story
Sunday, April 27
2:30 pmObsession
John Adams has spoken about his obsession with Beethoven, “music that we love so much that we kind of want to get under the skin of that composer.” Adams and Beethoven will both be featured on this program as the Hausmann Quartet continues their survey of Beethoven’s late quartets with his opus 127. Haydn is represented with this opus 76, no. 1, the very first Haydn quartet the Hausmanns performed together, 20 years ago!
Sunday, September 14
2:30 pmEchoes and Evolution
This dramatic concert features dialogues from around the world and through centuries, with one of Haydn’s earlier quartets (op. 17, no. 3) leading to Shostakovich’s brief but powerful Seventh Quartet, written in 1960 during a time of personal and political turmoil. After intermission we turn to the New World, with works by Aaron Copland (Two Pieces from 1928) and Cuban-American visionary Tania León’s Esencia (2009), which weaves together traditions from throughout Latin America with infectious rhythmic energy in León’s unique tonal language.
Sunday, November 9
2:30 pmFolk Songs
The tenth season of Haydn Voyages will conclude with a concert rooted in folk and indigenous traditions, which have been a constant source of inspiration and allusion for classical composers across the centuries. Bela Bartok’s Fifth Quartet anchors this program’s journey through time and place.
All concerts are Sundays at 2:30, and include an intermission for a total length of under two hours. Each creative program will also include informative and entertaining commentary between selections from noted UC Santa Barbara musicologist Derek Katz.
The Hausmann Quartet would like to recognize the support of pH Projects, The Conrad Prebys Foundation and the City of San Diego’s Commission for Arts and Culture. KPBS is the exclusive media sponsor of Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime.
More info at hausmannquartet.com
Tickets available online, and at the door.
Phone 619.432.2314
Advanced Tickets:
$60 Premium Reserved seating
$35 General Admission
$25 Maritime Museum members
$10 Students/Military
$50 Package deal for museum + concert admission
Save on season subscriptions (4 concerts):
$220 Reserved seating, $120 General Admission
Tickets at the door (day of concert):
$70 Premium Reserved seating
$40 General Admission
$25 Maritime Museum members
$12 Students/Military
$55 Package deal for museum + concert admission
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About the Hausmann Quartet
The Hausmann Quartet has established itself as an integral part of the cultural life of Southern California since its arrival in San Diego in 2010. As the Fisch/Axelrod Quartet-in-Residence at San Diego State University they teach and organize the chamber music program, engage in interdisciplinary collaborations with other departments and visit local schools for concerts and clinics on behalf of the School of Music and Dance. They pioneered interactive programs for students, adult amateur musicians and local seniors, veterans and homeless with support from Mainly Mozart, Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and ACMP, and continue to administer and direct these programs as their own non-profit organization serving the Greater San Diego area, with recent grants from the California Arts Council, The Conrad Prebys Foundation and the City and County of San Diego. Current community engagement partnerships with organizations including Art of Elan, Resounding Joy, San Diego Rescue Mission and Father Joe’s Villages deepen the quartet’s local impact.
Founded in the summer of 2004 at Lyricafest, they have recently been hailed as “excellent” by the San Diego Union-Tribune, which also cited “Their outstanding virtue is a rare one: the ability to disappear into and behind whatever they are playing, leaving only the music in view.” They maintain an active performance schedule throughout North America and Asia. The members of the Hausmann Quartet are violinists Isaac Allen and Bram Goldstein, violist Angela Choong and cellist Alex Greenbaum. The quartet is named after Robert Hausmann, the eminent 19th-century German cellist and founding member of the Joachim Quartet.
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About the Maritime Museum of San Diego
The Maritime Museum of San Diego experience includes admission to a world-class collection of historic sailing ships, steam-powered boats, and submarine, each offering entertaining and educational exhibits. The 501c3 non-profit Museum enjoys an international reputation for excellence in restoring, maintaining, and operating historic vessels including the world’s oldest active sailing ship, Star of India. Maritime Museum of San Diego is ranked as one of the nation’s top attractions offering self-guided tours, docent guided-group tours, tall ship charters, year round public events, educational programs, and a distinctive venue for corporate/private events. The Museum is open daily along Star of India Wharf at 1492 North Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101-3309.
About musicologist Derek Katz
Derek Katz is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his PhD. He also holds a degree from Harvard, and has studied at The Free University of Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship. A specialist in Czech music, he has published articles in Musical Quarterly and multiple Czech journals, as well as chapters in Nineteenth Century Chamber Music (Schirmer, 1998), and in Janáček and His World (Princeton, 2003). Katz has also written for The New York Times and the San Francisco Opera and spoken at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He is an enthusiastic amateur violist and chamber music player
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