String quartet to play New Music Guild shows


Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The New Music Guild will kick off its 2015-16 season Sept. 4 and 6 with a two-concert residency by the Howard Report (also known as the Howard String Quartet).

The members are siblings from a Steubenville family and have played together for many years.

The group consists of four string instrumentalists, each of whom performed in the Dana Symphony Orchestra while attending Youngstown State University. All four are also composers and have played in the Festival Chamber Orchestra of the New Music Guild for 21 years.

Ethan Howard is the first violin and has directed the Steubenville Schools String Program and Orchestras for more than a decade.

Second violinist Esther Howard studied both English and music at YSU and is also a poet.

Jeremy Howard plays viola in the group and has specialized in experimental music.

Cellist Jason Howard teaches music theory at Westminster College in Pennsylvania.

The Howard Quartet specializes in 20th- and 21st-century works and will feature music by its own members and by other composers.

The Sept. 4 concert will be at 7:30 p.m. in Bliss Recital Hall on the YSU campus.

The Sept. 6 concert will take place at 4 p.m. in Sts. Peter and Paul Church, Holy Apostles Parish, 421 Covington St. There will be an after-concert party.

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