- Juilliard String Quartet
The Juilliard String Quartet is a classical music string
quartet founded in 1946 at theJuilliard School in New York. The original members were Robert Mann and Robert Koff onviolin , Raphael Hillyer onviola , and Arthur Winograd oncello ; Current members (as of 2008) are Joel Smirnoff and Ronald Copes on violin, Samuel Rhodes on viola, andJoel Krosnick on cello. Joel Smirnoff will be leaving the quartet after its 2008-2009 season to become president of the Cleveland Institute of Music. The quartet is currently quartet-in-residence both at the Juilliard School and theLibrary of Congress . It has also received numerous awards including four Grammys and membership in the National Academy Recording Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame.The quartet plays a wide range of classical music, having recorded works by composers such as Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bartók, Debussy, and Shostakovich, while also promoting more contemporary composers such as
Elliott Carter ,Ralph Shapey , andMilton Babbitt . It has also performed with other noted musicians such asAaron Copland ,Yo-Yo Ma , andMaurizio Pollini .The quartet began recording with
Sony Classical (formerlyColumbia Records andCBS Masterworks ) in1949 , and the group's discography currently numbers over 100 items, including repertoire well-travelled and unfamiliar. Their early 1950s recordings of the six Bartok string quartets on the Columbia Records label and various works recorded for the RCA Living Stereo label (c. 1958-1962) are particularly acclaimed.Members
First
violin *
1946 Robert Mann
*1997 Joel Smirnoff econd violin
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1946 Robert Koff
*1958 Isidore Cohen
*1966 Earl Carlyss
*1986 Joel Smirnoff
*1997 Ronald Copes Viola *
1946 Raphael Hillyer
*1969 Samuel RhodesVioloncello *
1946 Arthur Winograd
*1955 Claus Adam
*1974 Joel Krosnick 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)External links
* [http://juilliardstringquartet.org/bios/index.html Juilliard String Quartet] Juilliard String Quartet official site
* [http://www.juilliardstringquartet.net Juilliard String Quartet] Sony Classical official site
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/performer.pl?ens=5 Art of the States: Juilliard String Quartet]
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