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Chamber Music Albuquerque is bringing the Viano Quartet, featuring mandolinist Avi Avital, to the Simms Center for the Performing Arts. 

The Viano Quartet had a serendipitous beginning, Hao Zhou, violinist, said. The quartet formed in 2015 when Zhou and fellow musicians Lucy Wang, Aiden Kane and Tate Zawadiuk were placed in a chamber group for class credit and stayed together. 

鈥淭here was something really, really unique about the energy of working together,鈥� Zhou said, 鈥渁nd we all felt it.鈥�

Despite having played together for years, Zhou said they are always trying to figure out exactly what makes the four of them meld together so well. 

He said the more they figure out, the more they understand which parts need to be preserved and which are not so important to their performance as a quartet. 

鈥淎 very fundamental part is the four of us just really love playing with each other,鈥� Zhou said, 鈥渁nd I think everything else comes from that.鈥�

The dynamic in a quartet can be intense, he said, but he finds it a privilege to still be going a decade later. 

鈥淔or every year that we鈥檙e still making music together, I think it鈥檚 an experience that鈥檚 really special,鈥� Zhou said.

The quartet focuses on a repertoire that offers variety and depth, he said, wanting pieces that have some sort of narrative and do not feel one-dimensional. 

Sometimes this involves sitting and exploring a piece more, or leaning toward the tremendous variety of music from a composer like Beethoven, he said. The program for their performance on Sunday, May 3, will have a variety of different styles, Zhou said. 

The program includes a very traditional and classical piece by Franz Joseph Haydn, who Zhou said is the bread and butter for any string quartet. It also includes Sulkhan Tsintsadze鈥檚 鈥淪ix Miniatures for String Quartet and Mandolin鈥� that the audience will 鈥渒ind of kick your feet and move your arms to,鈥� he said. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 a collection of folk dances for quartet and mandolin,鈥� Zhou said.

David Bruce鈥檚 鈥淐ymbeline鈥� will conclude the program, which was a commissioned piece for mandolin virtuoso Avital. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 a contemporary piece, and it draws on a lot of things that were present in the pieces leading up to it,鈥� Zhou said. 鈥淪o, very classical in form, but also has a lot of folk elements and (is) very introspective, especially the last movement.鈥� 

He said the group鈥檚 dynamic distinguishes them from other quartets. 

鈥淲e have our own life stories to share through our music.鈥�

Elizabeth Secor is an arts fellow from the New Mexico Local 近距离内射合集 Fellowship program. You can reach her at esecor@abqjournal.com.