The FSQ@USU 2026/27 Season opens with The Viola Burns Longer—a concert bursting with personality, creativity, and wit; continues with When You Think You Can’t Go Further, which pushes beyond the outer bounds of the quartet tradition; and closes with Memory, Longing, and What Extends Beyond, widening toward ecological memory, mortality, gratitude, and what survives us

FSQ at USU Series | The Viola Burns Longer

September 24, 2026 @ 7:30pm

Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall

Kenji Bunch | The 3 G’s

Kenji Bunch | We’d Better Call for Backup (for 2 Violas)

Kenji Bunch | The Viola Burns Longer

Antonín Dvorák | String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97

With guest artists Kenji Bunch, composer & viola, Toby Appel, viola, and Monica Ohuchi, piano.

The FSQ@USU 2026/27 Series opens by putting the viola—chamber music’s beloved middle voice—squarely in the spotlight. Composer and violist Kenji Bunch joins the quartet alongside his longtime mentor, renowned violist Toby Appel, for a program full of wit, virtuosity, warmth, and glorious low strings. Featuring three works by Bunch and culminating in Dvorák’s exuberant E-flat Major String Quintet, this is a celebration of an instrument that may not always demand center stage—but, as it turns out, burns longer.