DeKALB – The Avalon String Quartet will continue its Beethoven Cycle at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, 400 Lucinda Ave. in DeKalb. The Avalon will perform Beethoven Quartets Opus 130 and Opus 131. The concert is free and open to the public.

The members of the Avalon Quartet teach applied lessons and coach chamber music, and
are active in their performance career bringing attention to the Northern Illinois University
School of Music from the concert stage and in other outreach activities. They annually perform a number of concerts on campus and on a concert series produced by NIU at Symphony Center in Chicago. The Avalon quartet was founded in 1995, held residencies at Northern Illinois University and the Hartt School, and prior to its appointment at NIU in 2007 was the faculty quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University-South Bend Raclin School of the Arts for four years.