Juilliard String Quartet Plays Haydn, Bartók, and Dvořák on Monday, November 27, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall

Presented as Part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series

NEW YORK –– The Juilliard String Quartet performs quartets by Haydn, Bartók, and Dvořák on Monday, November 27, 2017, at 7:30pm in Alice Tully Hall as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series. The program features Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5 (Hob. III:79); Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5; and Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61.

Members of the Juilliard String Quartet are violinists Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes; violist Roger Tapping; and cellist Astrid Schween.

Tickets are $30 ($15 for full-time non-Juilliard students) and available for purchase at juilliard.edu/calendar. Tickets are free for Juilliard students.

About the Juilliard String Quartet

With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946, and widely known as “the quintessential American string quartet,” the Juilliard draws on a deep and vital engagement with the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works – a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. Each performance of the Juilliard Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment, and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature.

Having welcomed cellist Astrid Schween and celebrated its 70th anniversary last season, the Juilliard String Quartet marks the 2017-18 season with highly anticipated return appearances in Seattle, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, Memphis, Raleigh, Houston, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. It continues its acclaimed annual performances in Detroit, Philadelphia, and at the Ravinia Festival, along with numerous concerts at home in New York City, including appearances at Lincoln Center and Town Hall. Adding to its celebrated discography, the JSQ releases a new album featuring the world premiere recording of Mario Davidovsky’s Fragments (2016), together with Beethoven Quartet Op. 95 and Bartók Quartet No. 1. Highlights of concert programming throughout the 2017-18 season include visionary works by Beethoven, Bartók, and Dvořák, as well as James MacMillan’s haunting and evocative Quartet No. 2, Why is this night different? (1998).

The Juilliard String Quartet’s groundbreaking interactive app on Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden,” was released in 2015 by the innovative app developer, Touchpress, jointly with Juilliard. Both the app and the JSQ’s 2014 recording of the “Death and the Maiden” are available on iTunes. Celebrating one of the great collaborative relationships in American music, Sony Classical’s reissue of the Juilliard Quartet’s landmark recordings of the first four Elliott Carter String Quartets together with the 2013 recording of the Carter Quartet No. 5 traces a remarkable period in the evolution of both the composer and the ensemble. The quartet’s recordings of the Bartók and Schoenberg Quartets, as well as those of Debussy, Ravel and Beethoven, have won Grammy Awards, and in 2011 the JSQ became the first classical music ensemble to receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Devoted master teachers, the members of the Juilliard String Quartet offer classes and open rehearsals when on tour. The JSQ, the string quartet in residence at Juilliard, are all sought-after members of the string and chamber music faculties, and each May, they host the five-day internationally recognized Juilliard String Quartet Seminar. During the summer, the JSQ works closely on string quartet repertoire with students at the Tanglewood Music Center.

In performance, recordings and incomparable work educating the major artists and quartets of our time, the Juilliard String Quartet has carried the banner of the United States and Juilliard throughout the world.

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Program Listing:

Monday, November 27, 2017, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall

Juilliard String Quartet

Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series

Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, violins

Roger Tapping, viola

Astrid Schween, cello

 

Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5 (Hob. III:79)

Béla BARTÓK String Quartet No. 5

Antonín DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61

 

Tickets are $30 ($15 for full-time non-Juilliard students) and available for purchase at juilliard.edu/calendar. Tickets are free for Juilliard students.