The Amernet String Quartet has garnered recognition as one of today’s exceptional string quartets and are Ensemble-in-Residence at Florida International University in Miami. Their sound has been called “complex” but with an “old world flavor.” Strad Magazine described the Amernet as “…a group of exceptional technical ability.” The Amernet was founded in 1992 at The Juilliard School and was the First prize winner of the Banff, Tokyo, and Fischoff chamber music competitions.

The Amernet has always been committed to the music of our time, and now under the moniker AmerneXt, the Amernet is adopting some of the great works of the late 20th and 21st centuries in the context of earlier and traditional music. The Amernet maintains a strong commitment to performing music by living composers, having worked closely with composers such as John Corigliano, Orlando Garcia, John Harbison, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Augusta Read Thomas, Fredrick Kaufman, Bernard Rands, Gerhard Samuel, Morton Subotnick, Dmitri Tymoczko, and Chinary Ung. Vist http://amernetquartet.com/ for more information.

Join the Birmingham Chamber Music Society, the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, and the Amernet String Quartet for 2 concerts in Birmingham (Sunday, Nov. 6 @ 5:30pm and Tuesday, Nov. 8 @ 7:30pm), both at Samford University’s Brock Recital Hall.

This event (Tuesday Nov. 8 @ 7:30 pm) will feature a full program of more traditional works as well as one composition from a Birmingham Art Music Alliance composer. There will be music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Cynthia Miller (BAMA composer member), Benjamin Britten, Jeffrey Briggs, and Ludwig van Beethoven (arr.Briggs).

This project has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.