Weekend Concert Series
Ivalas Quartet
Sunday
October 4, 2026
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Calderwood Hall
Order your tickets starting July 29 at 10 am. Members and patrons enjoy exclusive access to tickets before they become available to the public on Wednesday, August 5. And member rates apply—$56 to $79 per ticket.
The excellent Ivalas Quartet perform Schubert’s monumental “Death and the Maiden” quartet, along with two American works: an early work in his “American” style by George Walker, who died only a few years ago at the age of 96; and a moving miniature from Carlos Simon, whose Requiem for the Enslaved had its Boston premiere at the Gardner Museum in 2022.
Program
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)
George Walker
String Quartet No. 1 (1946)
Carlos Simon
An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave (2015)
Artist
Ivalas Quartet is:
Reuben Kebede, violin
Tiani Butts, violin
Marcus Stevenson, viola
Pedro Sánchez, cello
Photo by Titilayo Ayangade
How to Get Tickets
The Fall 2026 presale begins July 29 at 10 am. Once presale begins, log in to your online account, call the Box Office at 617 278 5156, or visit the admissions desk in person to purchase concert tickets.
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- If you are already a member, log in first, and then add concert tickets to your basket.
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Music at the Gardner is supported by the Nora McNeely Hurley Foundation. The Museum thanks its generous concert donors: The Coogan Concert in memory of Peter Weston Coogan; Fitzpatrick Family Concert; James Lawrence Memorial Concert; Scott Nickrenz Concert; Alford P. Rudnick Memorial Concert; David Scudder in memory of his wife, Marie Louise Scudder; Wendy Shattuck Young Artist Concert; and Willona Sinclair Memorial Concert. The piano is dedicated as the Alex d’Arbeloff Steinway. The harpsichord was generously donated by Dr. Robert Barstow in memory of Marion Huse, and its care is endowed in memory of Dr. Barstow by The Barstow Fund. Music at the Gardner is also supported in part by Barbara and Amos Hostetter, Joseph Mari, Sallie and Jim McGregor, Nicie and Jay Panetta, and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
