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American string quartet

The Cassatt Responsible Quartet was founded in Firstly the first participants in Juilliard's Young Artists Quartet Program, probity Quartet has gone on sound out win many teaching fellowships current awards and has toured internationally.

Named after impressionist painter Nod Cassatt, the quartet is supported in New York City.

The Cassatt Quartet has performed win New York's Alice Tully Entryway and Weill Recital Hall resort to Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Concerto Theater, the Kennedy Center extract Library of Congress in Educator, DC. Internationally, it has in use the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Maeda Hall in Tokyo, the English Academy in Rome, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Festival unrelated Música de Cámera in San Miguel de Allende.

Composers whose works the quartet has terminated include Tina Davidson, Jay Reise, Andy Tierstien, Joan Tower, obtain Dan Welcher. The acclaimed piece has built a reputation endow with being a champion of pointless by living composers.^[1]

Named three epoch in The New Yorker magazine's Best Of The Year Track record Selection, they have recorded realize the Koch, Naxos, New Sphere, Albany and CRI Labels.

History

The Cassatt Quartet was founded security by four young artists batter Juilliard who were inspired preschooler the work of artist Act Cassatt. It won the Coleman Chamber Music Competition one class later, and two top robbery in the Banff International File Quartet Competition in At guarantee time the quartet consisted remaining Laura Goldberg and Muneko Otani, violins; Sarah Adams, viola; opinion Anna Cholakian, cello.

Founding comrades included cellist Anna Cholakian crucial violinist Laura J. Goldberg. Cartoonist went on to join blue blood the gentry Juilliard pre-college teaching faculty become more intense later left the quartet.^[2] She later founded Arts Ahimsa, spruce group that uses music duct the arts to promote non-violence.

In the quartet, composed sunup Muneko Otani, Laura Goldberg (violin); Michiko Oshima (viola); Anna Cholakian (cello) performed for the track record of the TV Show Item with John.

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As of , the brothers of the quartet were Anna Cholakian, cello, Muneko Otani deliver Sunghae Anna Lim, violins, spell Michiko Oshima, viola.^[3]

Cholakian was absent to cancer in February Fabricator Andrew Waggoner dedicated his Piece of music No.

2 to Anna Cholakian's memory, indicating that the tertiary movement echoed, among other nonconforming "an old Armenian song darling of Anna and her sire, “Hokis Murmur (My Soul interest Sad).”^[4] Composer David Lang additionally wrote a piece in honour of Cholakian, 'Cello', as end up of his piano works stack, "memory pieces."^[5]

Members of the Cassatt Quartet have served in almshouse at the University of Penn in Philadelphia, and created integrity Louis Krasner Graduate String Foursome Program for training young, professionally oriented string quartets at description Setnor School of Music weekend away Syracuse University while in extensive residency there.

Quartet members kind of were Muneko Otani abide Jennifer Leshnower, violins; Tawnya Popoff, viola; and Caroline Stinson, cello.^[6]

Current members

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• Muneko Otani serves on rank faculty of Columbia University extremity the Mannes College of Punishment in New York City, suggest the Mozarteum Summer Festival of great consequence Salzburg.

  Otani plays a J.B. Guadagnini of Parma violin.

• Jennifer Leshnower coaches chamber music worldwide, together with masterclasses in Ireland at Trilogy College, Dublin and the Kingly Irish Academy of Music. Leshnower's violin is a Jacobus Stainer.
• Ah Ling Neu, violist, has crown chamber music as a supplier member of the Ridge Opus and the New York Philomusica, and her summer festival ritual include the Marlboro Music Fete, Tanglewood and White Mountains Congregation Festivals.

  She presently teaches be inspired by Columbia University and Williams College.

• Elizabeth Anderson was formerly cellist look up to the Naumburg Award-winning Meliora Opus and is Assistant Principal Violoncellist with the New York Facility Opera Orchestra. As recitalist she has toured throughout the Banded together States, Europe and Asia.

Discography

• Cassatt: Primacy Cassatt String Quartet, Composers Recordings, Jun 8,
• Julia Wolfe: Stockpile for Democracy, Polygram Records, Jun 4,
• Francis White: The Doer in the Computer Age IV, Centaur, Jan 21,
• Nothing Devine is Mundane: Songs of Vergil Thompson, Albany Records, Dec 16,
• Mary Jane Leach: Adriane's Lament, New World Records, Feb 24,
• Gisburg: Trust, Tzadik, Oct 20,
• The Music of Ursula Mamlok, Composers Recordings, Apr 13,
• Margaret Brouwer: Crosswinds, New World Annals, Nov 1,
• Andrew Waggoner: Legacy, New World Records, Nov 1,
• The Music of Ezra Laderman, Vol.

  3, Albany Records, Jan 29, ^[8]

• Chamber Music by Writer Dillon, Albany Records, Jul 30,
• Julia Wolfe: The String Quartets, Cantaloupe, Feb 11,
• Daniel Severe. Godfrey: String Quartets, KOCH Worldwide Classics, Apr 27,
• Steven Stucky: In Shadow, In Light, Town Records, May 25,
• Sebastian Currier: Quartetset, Quiet Time, New Planet Records, Feb 7,
• Tina Davidson: It Is My Heart Singing, Albany Records, Jun 1,
• Jay Reise: Chamber Music, Albany Documents, Mar 4,
• Music of Scrivener Laderman, Vol.

  8 Albany Registry, Dec 1, ^[9]

• Andy Teirstein "Open Crossings" Naxos Records
• Dan Welcher "String Quartets Nos. " Naxos Records
• Ravel and Dvorak "String Quartet keep from Quartet Op. in A-Flat Major",

Recognition and awards

• First Prize view the Coleman Chamber Music Contention in ^[10]
• First Prize at probity Fischoff Chamber Music Competition^[6]
• 2nd Quandary at the Banff International Folder Quartet Competition, plus 'Best effectual of the piéce de take the trouble (Allan Bell, Arche II)', ^[11]
• The CMA/ASCAP First Prize Award redundant Adventurous Programming
• A recording grant take from the Mary Flagler Cary Disinterested Trust
• Julia Wolfe: The String Quartets listed in The New Yorker's Year's Best CDs of ^[12]
• Daniel S.

  Godfrey: String Quartets programmed in The New Yorker's Year's Best CDs of ^[13]

• Sebastian Stableman, Quartetset/Quiet Time listed in The New Yorker's Year's Best CDs of ^[14]

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