The members of the all-female Delights String Quartet may be based in Knoxville, but their individual travel itineraries span the globe … literally.
Performances have taken place in Austria, Italy, Japan, Korea, Vienna, Kansas. Kansas? Cellist Stacy Nickell Miller is from Salina, and the women toured as a group there last summer.
It’s a testament to their popularity that they’re already booked for a winter performance in Knoxville at Pellissippi State Community College. Scheduled for Dec. 11 at the Magnolia Avenue Campus, the free concert will serve as “a celebration of the fall semester and a welcoming of the holiday season,” according to Rosalyn Tillman, assistant dean of the campus. The public is invited.
In addition to cellist Miller, members of the Delights String Quartet include violist Eunsoon Lee-Corliss and violinists Ikuko Koizumi and Lisa Muci Eckhoff, the group’s founder. The quartet has performed in Knoxville previously at WDVX radio, ETPtv television, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the McClung Museum, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and Tennessee School for the Deaf. Each of the women is a performing artist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra as well.
Individually, the members have performed around the world. Eckhoff traveled to Austria with the Vienna Boys’ Choir and played at the Olympic Arts Festival in Korea. Koizumi, who began playing the violin at age 3, has played extensively in the country of her birth, Japan. Lee-Corliss, a native of Seoul, Korea, has toured Austria and performed in Italy’s Spoleto Festival. It’s no surprise that the group’s music has been described as “eclectic” and “nontraditional.”
The Magnolia Avenue Campus is located at 1610 Magnolia Ave. The performance begins at 11:45 a.m. in the Community Room.
For additional information, contact Tillman at rtillman@pstcc.edu or (865) 329-3100.