LEONKORO QUARTET

SALOMON SERIES
SUNDAY, APRIL 11 AT 2:00 PM
The Town Hall, 123 W 43rd St (btwn 6th & B’way)

Virtual Concert: Mon, Apr 12 - Sat, Apr 17

Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ from this terrific young European quartet in their PSC debut

PROGRAM: 

Beethoven: String Quartet in c minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
~ intermission ~
Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in a minor, D. 804

This program will run approximately two hours with a 20 minute intermission.

LEONKORO QUARTET
Jonathan Schwarz, Violin
Emiri Kakiuchi, Violin
Mayu Konoe, Viola
Lukas Schwarz, Cello

BIO: 

The Leonkoro Quartet [...] possesses an extraordinary stage presence, glows for the music, embraces full artistic risk, and astounds through their profound sensitivty towards the unique sonority of each piece [...]

The String Quartet, founded in Berlin in 2019, can hardly be described more aptly than in the review published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in January 2022. 

The ensemble is framed by brothers Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz on first violin and cello, while Emiri Kakiuchi on second violin and Mayu Konoe on viola form the inner voices. Leonkoro—from Esperanto: "lionheart"—is no accidental reference to Astrid Lindgren’s children's book about two brothers, a story that sets a heartfelt sense of comfort against the weighty reality of death — a sentiment that string quartet repertoire addresses in several instances.

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Photo credit: Co Merz