Dover String Quartet and clarinetist David Shifrin to perform

Coastal Concerts will present the Dover String Quartet with clarinetist David Shifrin at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3, in the Bethel United Methodist Church Hall at Fourth and Market streets, Lewes. The concert will be preceded at 1 p.m. by Lani Spahr’s Performance Insights.

The group will also perform a public recital at 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 2, at Elkins-Archibald Atrium, CAMP Rehoboth, 37 Baltimore Ave., Rehoboth Beach.

The Dover String Quartet was formed in 2008 at Curtis Institute, where it is currently in residence. Its name pays tribute to Matthew Arnold’s poem, ”Dover Beach,” and music set to it by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber.

The quartet’s members teach as well as perform. Its innovative, multimodal Curtis residency allows the institute to reinvigorate its tradition of maintaining a top-quality professional string quartet on its faculty, while providing resources for the ensemble to experiment with new technologies and engage audiences digitally.

Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator and educator. An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, Shifrin served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. with CMSLC, and hosted and performed in several television broadcasts on PBS’s “Live From Lincoln Center.” He concluded his tenure with Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Ore., in summer 2020 after having been the festival’s artistic director since 1981. He is currently artistic director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Festival.

For more information and to purchase tickets, go to coastalconcerts.org.