Deeply moving performance of Medvedovskaya's "String Quartet No. 1" by PUBLIQuartet at Bargemusic, September 20, 2012. This brilliant young quartet consists of Curtis Stewart, violin; Jannina Norpoth, violin (visiting); Nick Revel, viola; and Amanda Gookin, cello; as part of New York Composers Circle concert and Bargemusic's "Here and Now" series. Russian American composer and concert pianist, Nataliya Medvedovskaya, composed her String Quartet No. 1 in 1991 when she was only 18 years of age. It was premiered around the world by the legendary St. Petersburg Quartet to stellar reviews. Richard S. Ginell of the Los Angeles Times (April 16 2003) called it "...an amazingly mature Quartet No. 1 [for an 18 year-old composer]... Only eight minutes long, the piece has a tight, arching structure, good ideas that are bounced around the instruments and a restless, dramatic temperament audibly handed down from Shostakovich."