Event | Concerts and Performances Stradivari Anniversary Concert 2: Isidore Quartet with Misha Amory and Nina Lee

Isidore String Quartet  
Adrian Steele, violin 
Phoenix Avalon, violin 
Devin Moore, viola 
Joshua McClendon, cello 

with guests Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello

The Isidore String Quartet’s meteoric rise to acclaim began with their formation at Juilliard in 2019 and continued with a win at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. A portion of the concert will be dedicated to arrangements of music by J.S. Bach and Johannes Brahms by Isidore’s violist Devin Moore. They will then celebrate a pair of great opus eighteens, including the final B-flat-major quartet of Beethoven’s op. 18 collection (his first venture into the genre), and one of Brahms’ first major chamber works, his op. 18 string sextet. For this special Stradivari Anniversary concert, the quartet will be joined by violist Misha Amory and cellist Nina Lee for a performance of Brahms’ first sextet, held in manuscript at the Library, with all performers using Stradivari instruments, including the recently acquired “Fulton, ex Baird, Tuscan-Medici" 1690 Stradivari viola. Five come from the Library’s collections, with the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History’s “Servais” Stradivari cello (1701) on loan for the occasion. 

Pre-concert Event
Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 pm 

Tickets available Wed., October 1 at 10 ET.