Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the two-time Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and holds additional residencies at Northwestern University and the Artosphere Festival. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its honors include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award.

The Dover Quartet’s 2023–2024 season includes a North American tour with Leif Ove Andsnes and performances with Haochen Zhang and David Shifrin. Recent collaborators include Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Ray Chen, the Escher String Quartet, Bridget Kibbey, Anthony McGill, Edgar Meyer, the Pavel Haas Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and Davóne Tines. The quartet recently premiered Steven Mackey’s theatrical-musical work Memoir, and works by Mason Bates, Marc Neikrug, and Chris Rogerson.

The Dover Quartet’s Grammy-nominated recordings include its highly acclaimed three-volume set Beethoven Complete String Quartets (Cedille Records), which was hailed as “meticulously balanced, technically clean-as-a-whistle, and intonationally immaculate” (The Strad), and The Schumann Quartets (Azica Records).

The Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of the distinguished Guarneri, Cleveland, and Vermeer quartets. Its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, the New England Conservatory, and the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. They were mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Peter Wiley. The Dover Quartet was formed at Curtis in 2008; its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alum Samuel Barber. The Dover Quartet proudly endorses Thomastik-Infeld strings.

The New York Times calls Leif Ove Andsnes “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight.” The celebrated Norwegian pianist has won acclaim worldwide, playing concertos and recitals in leading concert halls and with top orchestras while building an esteemed and extensive discography. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, was co–artistic director of the Risør Chamber Music Festival for nearly two decades, and served as music director of California’s Ojai Music Festival in 2012. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2013.

In the 2023–2024 season, Mr. Andsnes performs Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, and London Symphony Orchestra, as well as on a Japanese tour with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Other upcoming concert highlights include performances of Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre de Paris. Leif Ove Andsnes: The Complete Warner Classics Edition 1990–2010, a 36-CD retrospective, is due for release in October.

Mr. Andsnes’s discography comprises more than 50 titles, many of them bestsellers. Spanning repertoire from the Baroque to the present day, they have been recognized with 11 Grammy nominations, seven Gramophone Awards, and many other international prizes, while his recordings of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Mozart’s piano concertos nos. 9 and 18 were both named Best CD of the Year by The New York Times. Capturing his two major multi-season projects with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, his Sony Classical series A Beethoven Journey and Mozart Momentum 1785–1786 were honored with multiple Gramophone Awards, Belgium’s Prix Caecilia, and BBC Music Magazine’s Recording of the Year. Mr. Andsnes’s other accolades include the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award, the Gilmore Artist Award, and Norway’s Peer Gynt Prize and Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He curated a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall during the 2004–2005 season and has been pianist in residence at the Berliner Philharmoniker, artist in residence at the New York Philharmonic, and the subject of a London Symphony Orchestra Artist Portrait series.

Mr. Andsnes was born in Karmøy, Norway, in 1970 and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory. He is currently an artistic adviser for the Prof. Jirí Hlinka Piano Academy in Bergen, where he lives with his partner and their three children.