CAFE STRING QUARTET

SUNDAY, 3.03.24 // DOORS @ 6:30PM // MUSIC @ 7PM // $15 PRESALE | $10-20 SLIDING SCALE DAY OF SHOW

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The Café String Quartet has performed for public and private events across WNC since 2006.  Multi-year winners of the Wedding Wire Couple’s Choice awards, they have performed and recorded for the Hendersonville Symphony’s Up Close and Personal, Bach to Bluegrass, the Smoky Mountain Performing Arts Center, and many more.

Bring your dance shoes 💃 for a one of a kind show! Café music from around the world inspired by dance and the romance of coffee!

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Landon Walker, accordion
Landon has a long history as a professional musician. After studying classical bass and composition at FSU, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and began a 40-year career as a successful jazz bassist. He became intimately familiar with the music, performing with many local musicians, and had the opportunity to play with some of the world’s foremost players, including Lionel Hampton and Marilyn McPartland. A musical pioneer in public radio in Jacksonville, he was well known on both fronts. Landon played bass (and tuba) in ensembles large and small, from big bands to opera. Since his brother Scott introduced him to Irish music, he has taken up the accordion and the banjo and has composed quite a number of tunes that are Irish in nature, with a twist that reveals his very rich musical past. He and his wife Linda Minke are founding members of Celtic Ring, a performing group in northeast Florida.

Paula Akbar, violin
Paula Akbar, a native of Dee Flat, Oregon, attended Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and received her Master of Violin Performance degree from the Yale Graduate School of Music. Before her tenure with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC (1991-2015), she was a first violinist in the Oregon, New Haven, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

Monique Pinelli, violin
Monique studied with Leopold LaFosse at the University of Iowa School of Music where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree and with David Moskovitz at UNC-Greensboro where she earned her Master of Music. Monique has played with the Tri-Cities IA, Greensboro, Salt Lake, Asheville and Hendersonville Symphonies, Brevard Philharmonic, and Asheville Lyric Opera.

Vivian Torres, viola
A classically trained musician, experienced educator and Alexander Technique teacher, Vivian has a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Artist Diploma in Music Performance from Florida International University and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Vivian has performed with the Miami Symphony, South Florida Symphony, Dominican Republic Sinfonia, and the Latin billboard awards.

Eric Scheider, cello
Eric Scheider is the director of the Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra and has directed the Converse University Symphony Orchestra, the Hendersonville Symphony, and, the Echo Early Music Festival.  He is active composer and arranger and was a national finalist for the American Prize in orchestral programming.  As a cellist, he has performed across WNC, upstate SC, and Eastern TN, currently with the orchestras of Spartanburg and Hendersonville.  He has recorded for NPR, MTV films, + the National Parks Service