Music at Noon: The Logan Series at Penn State Behrend

Music at Noon: The Logan Series at Penn State Behrend continues Thursday, Oct. 23, with a performance by the Beo String Quartet, which has performed more than 140 concert works across the United States and Europe.

The concert, in McGarvey Commons, is free and open to the public.

The Beo String Quartet formed in 2015 and quickly built a repertoire that includes compositions by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich. The ensemble — violinists Jason Neukom and Andrew Giordano, violist Sean Neukom and cellist Ryan Ash — hosts an annual residency with the Charlotte New Music Festival. Their annual Composition Competition draws more than 100 submissions every year.

The quartet has collaborated with several contemporary composers, including Marc Mellits, who describes them as “an absolutely spectacular group of young, hungry musicians.”

Music at Noon: The Logan Series was founded by Kay Logan in 1989 and is supported by a $1 million endowment by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation. The series was designed to strip away the mystique that often is attached to professional chamber music. The lunchtime concerts, which are presented in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building, are informal, and a portion of the seating is reserved for students from Erie’s Diehl Elementary School.

To learn more about the series, visit the Music at Noon website.