Quatuor Danel Opens the Peoples' Symphony Concerts Season in Chelsea

Peoples' Symphony Concerts, the long-running presenter of affordable chamber music in New York, opens its 2026-27 season with the French-Belgian Quatuor Danel. The concert is tonight, Saturday, October 17, at 7:30pm at the High School of Fashion Industries, 225 W 24th St between 7th and 8th Avenues in Chelsea. It is part of the Mann Series.

The quartet was founded in 1991 and has played in its current lineup since cellist Yovan Markovitch joined in 2014. The members are Marc Danel and Gilles Millet on violin, Vlad Bogdanas on viola and Markovitch on cello. They perform on major stages worldwide and have made a series of ground-breaking recordings over three decades. They are known for bold, focused readings of the string quartet cycles of Beethoven, Shostakovich and Weinberg.

The program pairs Weinberg's Quartet No. 2, Op. 3 with Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8 before intermission. After the break comes Beethoven's Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1. The evening runs about two hours, including a 20-minute intermission. Hearing Weinberg and Shostakovich side by side is a draw for anyone drawn to Russian-tradition repertoire.

Tickets are $25 for reserved front seating, $20 for general admission and $10 for students. Mann Series subscribers pay as little as $9.33 for this concert. A virtual version of the concert streams from Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 24, for those who can't attend in person.