Praised by the Washington Post for their dramatic playing – “beautifully calculated and co-ordinated … time and motion seemed to defy the laws of physics” – Australia’s own universe-bending Orava Quartet are warmly welcomed back to the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival with a captivating program centrally featuring French impressionist composer Claude Debussy’s sensually extravagant String Quartet. Presented alongside is the String Quartet No 1 by Erwin Schulhoff – one of central Europe’s most gifted and versatile Jewish musicians, whose life was tragically cut short in a Nazi prison in 1942 – a versatile pianist as equally at home in the concert hall as the swing band, whose music similarly shapeshifts to the gravitational pull of impressionism, romanticism, folk tunes, and jazz riffs.