TAKÁCS QUARTET
Arens series - April 22, 2023
7:30pm at Washington Irving High School
virtual CONCERT RELEASED on april 24
This concert is their only NYC appearance this season!
Program:
Arvo Pärt: Summa
Haydn: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77 No. 2, Hob III:82
Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major D. 887
ARTISTS:
Edward Dusinberre, violin
Harumi Rhodes, violin
Richard O'Neill, viola
András Fejér, cello
BIO:
One of the world's most cherished ensembles, the Takács Quartet, is now entering its forty-eighth season. Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about the 2022-2023 season that begins with a tour of Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea, and includes the release of two new CDs for Hyperion Records. A disc of Haydn’s opp. 42, 77 and 103 is followed by the first recording of an extraordinary new work written for the Takács by Stephen Hough, Les Six Rencontres, presented with quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux. As Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Takács will perform four concerts there. Based in Boulder at the University of Colorado, the quartet members are Christoffersen Faculty Fellows, and the grateful beneficiaries of an instrument loan by the Drake Foundation.
The Takács records for Hyperion Records, recently winning awards for their recordings of string quartets by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and - with pianist Garrick Ohlsson - piano quintets by Amy Beach and Elgar. Other releases for Hyperion feature works by Haydn, Schubert, Janáček, Smetana, Debussy and Britten, as well as piano quintets by César Franck and Shostakovich (with Marc-André Hamelin), and viola quintets by Brahms and Dvorák (with Lawrence Power).
The Takács Quartet appears by arrangement with Seldy Cramer Artists, and records for Hyperion and Decca/London Records.
The Takács Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado in Boulder and are Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall, London
Web-site: www.takacsquartet.com