ATLANTA - Oglethorpe University is proud to present the Grammy nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet in their Dmitri Shostakovich Centennial Concert on March 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the Conant Performing Arts Center. The concert at Oglethorpe will feature Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, Antonin Dvorák’s American Quartet and Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8.

The St. Petersburg String Quartet, founded in 1985 at the Leningrad Conservatory, has received first prizes at the Melbourne, Australia, International Chamber Music Competition, the Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition and the All-Soviet Union String Quartet Competition. The Boston Globe calls their Shostakovich “Russian music making at its best.”

The St. Petersburg String Quartet members (Alla Aranovskaya, first violin; Alla Krolevich, second violin; Boris Vayner, viola; Leonid Shukayev, cello) are “so in touch with one another in the ebb and flow of the music that it almost seemed to be coming from one organism,” writes The Dallas Morning News.

Tickets to the concert are $10 and will only be available at the door beginning at 7:00 p.m. on March 14. Admission is free with an Oglethorpe ID. The concert, presented by Oglethorpe’s department of music, is part of the university’s Arts & Ideas event series. To see the complete schedule of events, visit www.oglethorpe.edu and click on Arts & Ideas.