Cassatt String Quartet Concert
\nSaturday, November 11, 2023 5 \u2013 6PM<\/p>\n
On Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 5 pm the award-winning\u00a0Cassatt<\/span>\u00a0String Quartet returns to Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. The quartet includes longtime Ossining resident, violinist Jennifer Leshnower.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Cassatt<\/span>\u00a0String Quartet\u00a0has performed all over the world since 1985. Their concert program includes a towering masterpiece by Beethoven, alongside great works of our time by living American composers, two of which feature trombonist Haim Avitsur.<\/p>\n For nearly 40 years, the\u00a0Cassatt<\/span>\u00a0String Quartet has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood, and Beijing\u2019s Central Conservatory.<\/p>\n Program About Cassatt String Quartet Highlights of the Cassatt Quartet\u2019s upcoming season include major performances, premieres, and recordings of works by Tania Le\u00f3n, Chen Yi, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Adolphus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, Shirish Korde, Anthony Paul De Ritis, Allen Shawn, and Daniel S. Godfrey; collaborations with Ursula Oppens, David Jackson, Dominique Eade, Eliot Fisk, Doris Stevenson, Magdalena Baczewska, Haim Avitsur, and Kyo-Shin-An Arts; hometown concerts in the New York area, including performances at Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space, Bethany Arts in Ossining, and Bargemusic in Brooklyn; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain. The CSQ\u2019s 2023-2024 teaching schedule includes masterclasses and residencies at Texas Tech University, University of Texas Permian Basin, College of the Holy Cross, and Columbia University\u2019s Music Department and Office of the Core Curriculum.<\/p>\n The Quartet\u2019s prolific discography \u2013 featured three times in Alex Ross\u2019s \u201c10 Best Classical Recordings\u201d column in The New Yorker \u2013 includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels. The CSQ\u2019s playing has been featured on NPR\u2019s \u201cPerformance Today,\u201d WGBH Boston, WQXR and WNYC of New York, Canada\u2019s CBC Radio, and Radio France.<\/p>\n The Cassatts are devoted to nurturing young musicians, and have given classes at Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and Syracuse Universities; the University of Pennsylvania and Bard Conservatory; the American Academy in Rome and the Toho School in Tokyo; and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. The CSQ is in residence annually at the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music in Vinalhaven, Maine; and at Cassatt in the Basin!, an educational residency in West Texas.<\/p>\n Named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower; violist Rosemary Nelis; and cellist Gwen Krosnick.<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/b>Joan Tower:<\/b>\u00a0Trombone Quintet
Victoria Bond:<\/b>\u00a0Blue & Green Music<\/i>\u00a0(Written for the\u00a0Cassatt<\/span>\u00a0String Quartet)
Adolphus Hailstork:<\/b>\u00a0Monuments<\/i>\u00a0for trombone and string quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven:<\/b>\u00a0String Quartet Op. 18, # 1 in F Major<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Hailed for its \u201cmighty rapport and relentless commitment,\u201d the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing\u2019s Central Conservatory.<\/p>\n