Juilliard String Quartet

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Juilliard String Quartet members in September 2018. Left to right: Roger Tapping, Areta Zhulla, Astrid Schween, and Ronald Copes

The Juilliard String Quartet is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York by William Schuman. Since its inception, it has been the quartet-in-residence at the Juilliard School.

The original members were violinists Robert Mann and Robert Koff, violist Raphael Hillyer and cellist Arthur Winograd. Current members are violinists Areta Zhulla and Ronald Copes, violist Roger Tapping, and cellist .

It has received numerous awards, including four Grammys and membership in the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame. In February 2011, the group received the NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award for its outstanding contributions to recorded classical music.

Members[]

First violin[]

Second violin[]

Viola[]

Violoncello[]

Repertoire[]

The quartet plays a wide range of classical music, and has recorded works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bartók, Debussy and Shostakovich and many others, while also promoting more contemporary composers such as Elliott Carter, Ralph Shapey, Henri Dutilleux and Milton Babbitt. It has performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Glenn Gould, Benita Valente and also (in its earlier days) with the great scientist Albert Einstein. They can be heard on the soundtrack of Immortal Beloved movie.[3]

Recordings[]

The quartet began recording with Sony Classical (formerly Columbia Records and CBS Masterworks) in 1949, and the group's discography currently numbers over 100 items, including repertory both well-traveled and unfamiliar. In 1950, the quartet made the first of at least three appearances at the Peabody Mason Concerts in Boston. In that concert, they performed the world premiere of Martin Boykan's String Quartet of 1949.[4] Their early 1950s recordings of the six Bartok string quartets on the Columbia label and various works recorded for the RCA Living Stereo label (c. 1958-1962), including perhaps even more vivid and incisive readings of Bartok' six quartets and a complete Beethoven quartet cycle, are particularly acclaimed.

In 2015, the quartet released an app for Apple's iOS entitled "Juilliard String Quartet – An Exploration of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden". The recording was issued separately on audio by Ulysses Arts. The app was co-produced by the London-based app developer Touchpress and The Juilliard School. The app features the quartet in a performance of Franz Schubert’s celebrated String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, better known as "Death and the Maiden".[5]

Awards and recognitions[]

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:

  • The Juilliard String Quartet for Beethoven: The Late String Quartets (1985)
  • The Juilliard String Quartet for Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings (Complete) (1978)
  • The Juilliard String Quartet for Debussy: Quartet in G Minor/Ravel: Quartet in F (1972)
  • The Juilliard String Quartet for Bartók: The Six String Quartets (1966)
  • The Juilliard String Quartet Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)

References[]

  1. ^ "Juilliard String Quartet gets new first violin". The Strad. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  2. ^ "Schween, Astrid". The Juilliard School. Retrieved May 16, 2021.
  3. ^ Immortal Beloved at IMDb
  4. ^ Boston Herald, April 13, 1950, Rudolph Elie, "Juilliard Quartet"
  5. ^ "Areta Zhulla to Become First Violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet Beginning September 2018; Joseph Lin to Step Down at the End of the 2017-18 Season and Remain on the Juilliard Faculty". The Juilliard School. February 3, 1903. Retrieved May 16, 2021.

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