Our series in the galleries of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art continues with the C4 Clarinet Quartet performing all women composers including American composers Amy Beach and Florence Price. Join us at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 8, in the contemporary galleries to be awash in live music while surrounded by amazing art. This series is FREE and open to the public. Check out the full season line-up here.
Established in 2022, C4 Quartet is a clarinet quartet based in Northwest Arkansas. Its founding members include Janice Bengtson (bass clarinet), Manchusa Loungsangroong, Sarah Reed, and Deborah Shaw. When music calls for more, the quartet’s usual “plus-one” is Samantha Ellis. C4 has given concerts at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and at the local colleges and schools in the NWA area. C4’s outreach advocates for music education and promotes music by women composers, composers of color, and local composers through performances and commissioning works including works by Florence Price, William A.R. May, Kristi Sturgeon, and the University of Arkansas’ own Yoshio Yamashita. In addition to performing works by diverse composers, C4 performs a wide variety of genres including classical, jazz, contemporary music, and popular music.