Sao Paulo City String Quartet to perform Thursday

The Sao Paulo City String Quartet will be performing at Auer Hall in the IU Jacobs School of Music on Thursday.

Louis Fernando Lopes, the acting assistant director of the Latin American Music Center at the IU Jacobs School of Music, said there aren’t many string quartets like this because this group isn’t the typical European group.

Founded in 1935, Lopes said that the current quartet is no longer made up of the original members. The four musicians are violinists Nelson Rios and Betina Stegmann, cellist Robert Suetholz and viola player Marcelo Jaffe. Suetholz is the only one of the four who was born in the United States.

Lopes said that last year he went to the Latino Music Festival in Chicago, and was a part of a panel discussion.

Deputy Consul General and Counselor Ana Elisa de Magalhaes Padilha Pupo Netto from the Consul General of Brazil in Chicago were in attendance, he said.

He said that she knew of the good reputation that the Jacobs School of Music has, and that she proposed to have a joint project.

The quartet’s manager was good friends with the Deputy Consul General, Lopes said, and they had made plans for the group to come last year, but the finances weren’t there.

“Now it’s very easy since they were already scheduled to perform at the Latino Music Festival in Chicago,” Lopes said.

Lopes described the performance as romantic, full of energy and a lot for classical music.

“Come and discover,” he said.

- Samantha Kirby