Unity Through Music: We are the Catalyst

Friday, August 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
First Congregational Church of Wellfleet, 200 Main Street, Wellfleet

Catalyst Quartet

• Abi Fayette, violin
• Karla Donehew Perez, violin
• Paul Laraia, viola
• Karlos Rodriguez, cello

The young stars of the GRAMMY® Award-winning Catalyst Quartet make their debut with the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival! Together, they believe in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience. Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor,” the Catalyst Quartet will perform a fascinating mix of an American standard orchestrated by a contemporary Japanese composer, a recent Cuban triptych by a young prize-winning composer, and Beethoven’s emotional String Quartet in A Minor.

“Like all great chamber groups, the Catalyst Quartet is beautiful to watch, like a family in lively conversation at the dinner table: anticipating, interrupting, changing subjects.” – The New York Times

TORU TAKEMITSU  (1930 – 1996)                  

Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles mortes) for string quartet                                    

JORGE AMADO MOLINA  (b. 1997)   

Tríptico Cubano (2016)

• Monte
• Culebra
• Sol

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN   (1770 – 1827)

String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 132

• Assai sostenuto – Allegro 
• Allegro ma non tanto
• Molto Adagio – Andante (Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart)
• Alla marcia, assai vivace
• Allegro appassionato – Presto