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Venue Accessibility

Virginia Sommerville Theater at Well-Spring
The Theater is on the first floor. 

Entrance and Building Access:
• Enter Well-Spring Campus through the Event Entrance/Back Gate.  Proceed to Event Parking or Handicap Parking.  Or pull up to the Covered Walkway for drop off.

Internal Navigation:
• Follow the Covered Walkway to the Bistro Lobby.  The Theater is to your left.

Seating: The Theater has multiple areas to accommodate mobility devices and companion seating.

Additional Resources: This state-of-the-art facility provides a hearing loop system that directly feeds audio from the stage to audience members’ hearing aids.

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MGS presents the Martins Piano Quartet

MGS concludes the season with the Martins Piano Quartet featuring Gabriel Martins on cello, Jordan Bak on viola, Kevin Zhu on violin, and Victor Santiago Asunción on piano.

The Martins Piano Quartet performs works of Johannes Brahms, Joaquín Turina, and Arthur Foote.

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Brazilian-American cellist Gabriel Martins gained recognition after winning both the Sphinx Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2020.  Since then, his career has continued to grow, with recent debuts at Carnegie Hall, Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), Maison Symphonique (Montréal), Wigmore Hall (London), and with the Alabama, Arkansas, Houston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Omaha, Pacific, Phoenix, Santa Fe, and São Paulo Symphony Orchestras. In 2025, he gave his first tour of Asia, with recitals in Bangkok, Chiayi, Manila, Taipei, and Tokyo.   His performances have been broadcast on NPR, WQXR, KUSC, and WFMT, and he was named one of Classic FM’s “30 Under 30” Rising Stars. Festival appearances include Aspen, Bard, Brevard, ChamberFest Cleveland, Four Seasons, La Jolla, Mainly Mozart, Ravinia, Sitka, and Yellow Barn. Among his additional honors are prizes at the David Popper International Cello Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, the Prague Spring International Music Competition, the Schadt String Competition, the Orford Music Award, and the American Recital Debut Award.

Born to Brazilian and American parents, Martins grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He began studying the cello at age five with Susan Moses at the Indiana University String Academy. He earned his Bachelor of Music as a Presidential Scholar at the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with Ralph Kirshbaum, and won both the school’s concerto and Bach competitions in his freshman year. He completed his Master of Music at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Laurence Lesser.

Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is joining the world-renowned Takács Quartet in 2025 & 2026 on a tour of rarely-performed Mozart viola quintets, in addition to making his concerto debuts (2025) with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. Bak will also give the world premiere of composer Michael Frazier’s new viola concerto, Los quetzales, commissioned by Eastman School of Music, The Sphinx Organization, and the American Composers Orchestra.  He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Viola at University of North Carolina School of the Arts and also serves on the viola faculties of Manhattan School of Music and NYU Steinhardt. He is an Ambassador for UK Music Masters in London and teaches during the summer at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont.

Kevin Zhu, violin, claimed First Prize in the Junior Division of the 2012 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, along with the Composer's Prize. Zhu is a recipient of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant. He has performed with esteemed orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and has graced stages from Carnegie Hall to London's Royal Festival Hall.

Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago Asunción made his orchestral debut at 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra and his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 1999.  He served on the chamber music faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and the Garth Newel Summer Music Festival and was the pianist for the Garth Newel Piano Quartet for three seasons.

Join the Martins Piano Quartet and moderator Estelle Idoko for the pre-concert talk at 6:30pm!

Gabriel Martins, piano quartet

Friday, April 24, 2026 - 7:30 pm
Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre at Well-Spring

Live Audience Tickets

Program

  • Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67 Joaquín Turina 1882-1949

    I. Lento - Andante mosso
    II. Vivo
    III. Andante - Allegretto
  • Piano Quartet in C Major, Op. 23 Arthur Foote 1853-1937

    I. Allegro comodo
    II. Scherzo, Allegro vivace
    III. Adagio, ma con moto
    IV. Allegro non troppo

INTERMISSION

  • Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 Johannes Brahms 1833-1897

    I. Allegro
    II. Intermezzo
    III. Andante con moto
    IV. Rondo alla Zingarese: Presto

Program subject to change at the discretion of the artist(s).

This concert is made possible by the generous supporters of:

The Ingram Memorial Fund