The Avalon String Quartet is the featured artist in the December 6 free noon concert at Schoolcraft College. The quartet will perform Haydn's String Quartet in D Major and Debussy's Quartet in G Minor in the Presentation Room of the VisTaTech Center.

From its founding in 1995, the Quartet has grown into "one of the most exciting young string quartets in America," according to The Washington Post. It has won acclaim for its bold musicality and passionate intensity, as well as first prizes at a number of international competitions. The quartet's first recording, "From Dawn to Dusk," was named a 2002 record of the year by Chamber Music America.

The quartet's performing venues include New York's Alice Tully Hall; the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall; the Ravinia Festival; the Caramoor Festival; and the Music Alp Festival in Seoul, Korea.

The quartet members currently are full-time string and chamber music faculty at Indiana University at South Bend. They held the Lisa Arnhold Residency at the Juilliard School, and have taught at Juilliard as well as Interlochen and the Britten-Pears School in England.

For more information, contact the Music Department at Schoolcraft, at (734) 462-4403.

Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus on Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile roads, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online.