Takács Quartet Master Class

Performers

• Master Class Leaders
• Takács Quartet
  ·· Edward Dusinberre, Violin
  ·· Károly Schranz, Violin
  ·· Geraldine Walther, Viola
  ·· András Fejér, Cello
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  Performers
• Attacca Quartet
  ·· Amy Schroeder, Violin
  ·· Keiko Tokunaga, Violin
  ·· Luke Fleming, Viola
  ·· Andrew Yee, Cello
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  Linden String Quartet
  ·· Sarah McElravy, Violin
  ·· Catherine Cosbey, Violin
  ·· Eric Wong, Viola
  ·· Felix Umansky, Cello
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  Spruce Quartet
  ·· Alexi Kenney, Violin
  ·· Caroline Goulding, Violin
  ·· Ji Hee Han, Viola
  ·· Tony Rymer, Cello

Program

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
• String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131
  ·· Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile
• String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
  ·· Assai sostenuto – Allegro
  ·· Molto adagio: Andante

Bios

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• Takács Quartet

  
  Recognized as one of the world's great ensembles, the Takács Quartet plays with a unique blend of drama, warmth, and humor, combining four distinct musical personalities to bring fresh insights to the string quartet repertoire.
  
  In 2012, the Takács Quartet was the sole string quartet to be inducted into Gramophone's first Hall of Fame. Winner of the 2011 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Best Chamber Music and Song category, the ensemble is based in Boulder at the University of Colorado. The quartet performs 90 concerts a year throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea.
  
  The quartet's award-winning recordings include the complete Beethoven cycle on the Decca label. In 2006, the Takács Quartet made its first recording for Hyperion Records of Schubert's D. 804 and D. 810. A disc that featured Brahms's piano quintet with Stephen Hough was released to great acclaim in November 2007 and was subsequently nominated for a Grammy Award. Recordings of Brahms's Op. 51 and Op. 67 quartets, Schumann's Piano Quintet with Marc-André Hamelin, the complete Haydn "Apponyi" quartets, and Schubert's D. 956 Quintet with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum have all been subsequently released. Future recordings include a disc of the three Britten quartets and another of the two Brahms viola quintets with Lawrence Power.
  
  The Takács Quartet is known for its innovative programming. In 2007, it performed Everyman   with Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman at Carnegie Hall, inspired by the Philip Roth novel. The group collaborates regularly with the Hungarian folk ensemble Muzsikás, performing a program that explores the folk sources of Bartók's music. The quartet also performed a music and poetry program on a 14-city city tour of the US with poet Robert Pinsky.
  
  The Takács Quartet was founded in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and made its North American debut tour in 1982. In 2001, it was awarded the Order of Merit of the Knight's Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary; in March 2011, each member of the quartet was awarded the Commander's Cross Order of Merit by the president of the Republic of Hungary..

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• Attacca Quartet

  
  First-prize winners of the 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, top-prize winners and Listeners' Choice Award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premiere young performing ensembles. The quartet made its professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. It currently serves as the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School.

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• Spruce Quartet

  
  Founded at the New England Conservatory in 2012, the Spruce Quartet comprises young prizewinners and chamber musicians. Its members have appeared as soloists with major orchestras in the US, Europe, and Asia, and have won prizes at the Young Concert Artists, Yehudi Menuhin, and Sphinx competitions. The quartet has appeared at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, and Music@Menlo festivals, where it has worked and performed with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Mendelssohn string quartets, among others. Currently working with Roger Tapping as a part of New England Conservatory's Honors Ensemble Program, the Spruce Quartet will make its Jordan Hall recital debut in the spring of 2013.

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