Dallas Morning News
San Francisco Classical Voice
Anne Crowden, violinist/pedagogue/founder of the Crowden School
The Baumer SQ is honored to be the guest artists for the Crowden School's 30th Anniversary Celebration! To learn more, please check out a very recent article from the San Francisco Classical Voice https://www.sfcv.org/article/crowden-school-at-30.
Tampa Bay Times
Photo by Mark Kitaoka
Baumer String Quartet to perform at USF chamber
music festival
By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
John Fleming Tampa Bay Times
In Print: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Nathan Olson sounds a little sheepish when he explains where the name of his group, the Baumer String Quartet, comes from. "It's a reference to the movie The Royal Tenenbaums , which we share a particular affinity for," he says. "It's just a movie we happen to like, and somehow in the process of trying to figure out a good name, Baumer kind of stuck, and we've run with it."
The 2001 movie, a cult comic classic about a dysfunctional family, doesn't have much classical music in it — the soundtrack runs more to rock — but it does feature a temperamental former tennis star along the lines of John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg. And that's what appealed to the youthful quartet, made up of Olson and Aaron Requiro, violins; John T. Posadas, viola; and David Requiro, cello.
"All four of us enjoy playing tennis," says Olson, 25, co-concertmaster with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. "One of the things we'll be sure to do in Florida is hopefully get out there and play some tennis."
When they aren't on the court, the Baumers will be rehearsing and performing at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where they are the quartet in residence this week at the 2012 Rutenberg Chamber Music Festival. It's an opportunity for the group, formed when the members were students at the Cleveland Institute of Music, to continue a musical partnership that goes back, in the case of Olson and the Requiro brothers, to their middle school days growing up in Berkeley, Calif. Now they are all spread out to different parts of the country — Posadas, who teaches at the USF music school and plays in the Naples Philharmonic, is the Florida connection — but get together for festivals and other performances.
The Baumer Quartet will play works of Haydn, Brahms and Gershwin, plus a quartet by Minnesota composer Charles Krenner, at 7:30 p.m. Friday; and then be part of a collaborative concert Saturday night at 7:30 with students and faculty in works by Piazzolla, Schubert, Mendelssohn and others. (813) 974-2323; music.arts.usf.edu/rutemberg.
music festival
By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
John Fleming Tampa Bay Times
In Print: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Nathan Olson sounds a little sheepish when he explains where the name of his group, the Baumer String Quartet, comes from. "It's a reference to the movie The Royal Tenenbaums , which we share a particular affinity for," he says. "It's just a movie we happen to like, and somehow in the process of trying to figure out a good name, Baumer kind of stuck, and we've run with it."
The 2001 movie, a cult comic classic about a dysfunctional family, doesn't have much classical music in it — the soundtrack runs more to rock — but it does feature a temperamental former tennis star along the lines of John McEnroe or Bjorn Borg. And that's what appealed to the youthful quartet, made up of Olson and Aaron Requiro, violins; John T. Posadas, viola; and David Requiro, cello.
"All four of us enjoy playing tennis," says Olson, 25, co-concertmaster with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. "One of the things we'll be sure to do in Florida is hopefully get out there and play some tennis."
When they aren't on the court, the Baumers will be rehearsing and performing at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where they are the quartet in residence this week at the 2012 Rutenberg Chamber Music Festival. It's an opportunity for the group, formed when the members were students at the Cleveland Institute of Music, to continue a musical partnership that goes back, in the case of Olson and the Requiro brothers, to their middle school days growing up in Berkeley, Calif. Now they are all spread out to different parts of the country — Posadas, who teaches at the USF music school and plays in the Naples Philharmonic, is the Florida connection — but get together for festivals and other performances.
The Baumer Quartet will play works of Haydn, Brahms and Gershwin, plus a quartet by Minnesota composer Charles Krenner, at 7:30 p.m. Friday; and then be part of a collaborative concert Saturday night at 7:30 with students and faculty in works by Piazzolla, Schubert, Mendelssohn and others. (813) 974-2323; music.arts.usf.edu/rutemberg.