CC Summer Music Festival: Katarina String Quartetat 5 W. Cache La Poudre St.

Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Katarina String Quartet has quickly distinguished itself as one of North America’s most compelling young ensembles. The tightly-knit and community focused ensemble currently serves as the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School, where they explore all chamber music, from contemporary and canonized works to folk tunes. Violinists Jeanel Liang and Jérôme Chiasson, violist Celia Morin, and cellist Maya Enstad will open and close their Oct. 7 concert with Romantic-era compositions, performing Franz Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor and Robert Schumann’s String Quartet No. 1 in A minor. The middle of the program features Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi’s Anájikon – The Angel in the Blue Garden. The work is the first in a series of compositions (each with a different instrumentation) that are dedicated to angels. According to the composer’s notes, “Angels created as paintings or sculptures by artist friends inspired me to start this series of compositions in 2015. The music does not interpret the artwork but is close to it in terms of sound and creates a spiritual connection between the sculpture…