On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 7:30pm, the Chiara String Quartet will perform the final concert of the 2014-2015 Hixson-Lied Concert Series, featuring clarinetist Hattie Bestul, winner of the “Play with the Chiaras” auditions. The program will feature Mendelssohn Quartet no. 1, Op. 12 in E-flat Major, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 5, and Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor. This year marks the first time that the winner of the “Play with the Chiaras Auditions,” a competitive two-round audition, will join the Chiara Quartet in a performance on the final concert of the Hixson-Lied concert series. The Chiara Quartet members are in their tenth year as Hixson-Lied Artists-in-Residence at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts.