ATTACCA QUARTET
ARCHIVE VIDEO FROM JULY 25, 2020
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Co-Presented by:
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
with support from: Honigman
Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Howland Chamber Music Circle
Archipelago Collective
Supported by:
Buffalo Chamber Music Society
ATTACCA QUARTET
JULY 25, 2020
8:00 PM ET(“Doors Open” 7:30 PM ET)
Amy Schroeder, violin
Domenic Salerni, violin
Nathan Schram, viola
Andrew Yee, cello
PROGRAM
Haydn: String Quartet in in C major, Op. 74, No. 1
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
Caroline Shaw: Blueprint
Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, Op. 133
The Attacca Quartet’s recent CD, “Orange,” which is devoted to the music of Caroline Shaw, won the 2019 Grammy Award and prompted the New York Times to comment that the Attaca “is quickly becoming the authoritative ensemble for chamber works by Ms. Shaw.” Their CameraMusic webcast treats us to performances of two of the composer’s works. Rounding out the program are two great classical masterworks, Haydn’s late C major quartet, Op. 74, No. 1, and Beethoven’s extraordinary, inspiring Grosse Fuge.
“The Attacca Quartet enthralled a standing-room-only crowd.”
“They may be a relatively young ensemble, but already they come very close to epitomizing the string quartet ideal… Mastery like this scarce enough in quartets that have played together for decades.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past,” and it is this dexterity to glide between the music of the 18th through to the 21st century living composer’s repertoire that has placed them as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment – a quartet for modern times.
Touring extensively in the United States, recent and upcoming highlights include Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, New York Philharmonic’s Nightcap series, Lincoln Center White Lights Festival and Miller Theatre, both with Caroline Shaw, Phillips Collection, Wolf Trap, Carolina Performing Arts, Chamber Music Detroit, Red Bank Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Austin and a residency at the National Sawdust, Brooklyn. They recently performed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, where they will return in 2020 and have performed a series of Beethoven String Quartet cycles both at the historic University at Buffalo’s Slee Beethoven Quartet Cycle series and at the New York and Trinity Lutheran Church, Manhattan, where they have a longstanding partnership. The upcoming season will see them debuting at the Trinity Church at Wall Street as part as their 12 Night Festival where they will perform the complete cycle of the Beethoven String Quartets. Attacca Quartet has also served as Juilliard’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, the Quartet in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music at Texas State University.
Outside of the US, recent performances include Gothenburg Konserthuset, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, MITO Festival in Milan and Turin, as well as tours to Central and South America, and Japan.
ABOUT CameraMusic:
"Musica da camera" (the Italian term for "chamber music") takes on a whole new meaning during the COVID-19 crisis, as musicians everywhere find themselves isolated and unable to perform for live audiences. CameraMusic is the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's answer to this, inviting artists to perform live on camera over the Internet from wherever they are. All artists performing on CameraMusic are being compensated for their work.
The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is able to offer these free livestreams only with the generous support of our listeners. Every dollar contributed to the CMSD’s CameraMusic Fund helps to pay musicians for their live CameraMusic performances. Thank you!
