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PAGE 14 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, By Deborah Crandalt Laurier University‘s second annual celeâ€" bration of string quartets.. 2o, QuartetFest ‘93 promises a varied array of offerings, from Haydn‘s tradiâ€" tional masterpieces to some good of‘, down home, footâ€"stompin‘ fiddle playing, with several innovative experimental pieces in between. Hosted for a second year by the Penâ€" derecki String Quartet, QuartetFest ‘93 will confirm that quartet music doesn‘t necessarily involve "four old guys sitting down in their Featured at the festival will be the Lafayette String mmmmmwgp‘mmm Quartet, artistsâ€"inâ€"residence at the University of Victoâ€" uninteresting music," says Paul . cellist for the â€" ria, B.C.; the Fine Arts Quartet, quartetinâ€"residence at Penderecki String Quartet. the University of Wisconsin; Canadian fiddle champion "t‘s all pretty vibrant," Pulford says. "One of the interâ€" Frank Leahy and his quartet, and, of course, the Penâ€" esting things about this festival is that we have two derecki String Quartet. mmm.wdamwmmm "The Lafayettes are in a way our counterparts on the Randoiph Peters (a composer with the Canadian West Coast â€" they are the other quartetinâ€"residence Company}, who has written us a very interesting work at a Canadian university," Pulford says. "We had them for electrified string quartets. We‘re also premiering a here last year, and we think very highly of their playing. work by Aleksander Lason, and we‘re doing the Ontario So that‘s why they‘re here again this year. And the Fine premiere of a work by Christopher Butterfield, who is a mmn«dmwti?thm seilfâ€"described rock musician. So there‘s a lot of unusual . world now. If there was a ‘topâ€"10‘ of string quartets, and varied music." the Fine Arts would certainly be among them. Frank Leahy, who recently earned a bachelor of music degree at WLU, sufâ€" fers no culture shock when he slips from concerto to jigs and reels to swing and jazz. Winner of the 1984 Canadian National Fiddling Champiâ€" onships, Leahy‘s debut CD, Bending the Bow, was released last year. The Penderecki Bng Quartet was founded in 1981 at the Karol Szyâ€" manowski Academy of Music in Katowâ€" ice, Poland. in 1984, the Penderecki Quartet gained recognition at the Interâ€" national Summer Academy for Chamâ€" g usic in Hitzacker, Germany, the mwr;:go&al ing Quartet Competition in Evian, France; e Rome Festival. in 1986, the ensemble won the Polish National Chamber Music Competition and its Krzysztof Penderecki Special Award. A 1988 tour of the U.S. lead to artistsâ€"in~residence positions at Furman University in Greenville, §S.C. in :ggg and Trenton m in New Jersey in Since 1991, the Penderecki Quartet has been quarâ€" tat-imesidenoeatmfridww.h.m to coâ€"ordinating the Chamber Music String proâ€" grams at WLU, the quarget also holds a fourâ€"week (Continued on page 22) mmEcZ L000 En edhurtictnanhiiniWikhisentnactindavetRomene