Sometimes, when you want something to happen, you have to do it on your own.
That's the route taken by four local teen musicians who have formed the Trubaek Quartet.
The rationale for forming the quartet?
It's an altruistic one. The quartet was formed to give a benefit concert on April 17 to raise funds for recent earthquake victims in Haiti.
The musicians, (pictured, from left to right) include violist Camille Getz, violinist Nicole Hwang, cellist Rachel Baek and violinist Ray Anthony Trujillo. All are in high school, except for cellist Baek.
For the performance, each musician will play solo as well as play as a quartet.
The program includes all four performing on the Adagio non troppo from Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 1, as well as Getz tackling "Schon Rosmarin" by Kreisler, cellist Baek on the first movement from Elgar's Concerto E minor, violinist Hwang performing the third movement from Henri Wieniawski's Concerto A minor, and Trujillo on John Corigliano's "Red Violin Caprices" as well as his performance of two movements from Hindemith's Solo Sonata.
Trujillo's performance, especially, should be one to watch. He's a prodigious talent and recent winner of the Sacramento Philharmonic and Jammies Classical Music Competition for Young & Local Artists.
Also slated to perform is cellist Eunghee Cho, who will play the first movement of Shostakovich's Concerto Eb major.
The only help help that these four musicians had in putting this concert together was getting rides to and from rehearsals by respective parents, said Pat Getz, mother of violist Camille Getz.
And for young classical musicians that may be as as good an education about the the world of classical music presentation as can be had in the business.
Trubaek Quartet
WHEN: 8 p.m., April 17
WHERE: Northminster Presbyterian Church, 3234 Pope Ave., Sacramento
TICKETS: $20; $10 Students
INFORMATION: (916) 487-5192
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