January 21, 2003 Contact: Li-Ling Wang

Program also features Mozart’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458 ("The Hunt") and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 ("Rasumovsky")

On Tuesday, February 11 at 8 PM at Alice Tully Hall, the Juilliard String Quartet gives its final of two performances this season as part of Juilliard’s 2002-03 Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series. The program features the New York premiere of Gunther Schuller’s String Quartet No. 4, dedicated to the memory of violinist Felix Galimir (1910-1999), who was a faculty member of The Juilliard School from 1962-1999. The work was commissioned by Mr. Galimir’s old neighbor Brian Sands, who lived in the apartment above from Galimir’s on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and spent much time in his childhood listening to sounds of Mr. Galimir’s practicing and rehearsing. Other works programmed also include Mozart’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458 ("The Hunt") and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 ("Rasumovsky").

FREE tickets are required for this concert and are available at the Juilliard Box Office starting January 21. The Juilliard Box Office, located at 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, is open Monday through Friday, from 11 AM - 6 PM. For more information please call the Box Office at 212-769-7406.

The Juilliard String Quartet, now in its 56^th season as a resident teaching and performing ensemble at The Juilliard School, has established and maintained a reputation as one of the world’s great chamber ensembles. Known for its insightful interpretations and its vitality, the Quartet has performed throughout the world in recitals, at music festivals, and with major symphony orchestras as concerto quartet-soloist. In 1961, the Juilliard String Quartet became the first American quartet to visit the Soviet Union. A continuing residency at the Library of Congress, begun in 1962, inspired a series of concerts, broadcast nationwide, in which the Quartet performs on the library's matched set of Stradivarius instruments. In the five decades of its association with The Juilliard School, the Quartet has trained some of the world's foremost ensembles including the American, Brentano, Concord, Emerson, LaSalle, Mendelssohn, Shanghai, Tokyo, St. Lawrence, and Whitman string quartets. With recordings of virtually the entire string quartet literature, the Quartet’s discography is the most extensive in history. The ensemble has received numerous Grammy awards for its recordings. The Juilliard String Quartet has recorded exclusively for Sony Classical label and has been associated with the label since 1949. All members of the Juilliard String Quartet are American born and trained.