Juilliard String Quartet

Juilliard String Quartet

The Juilliard String Quartet is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York. The original members were Robert Mann and Robert Koff on violin, Raphael Hillyer on viola, and Arthur Winograd on cello; Current members (as of 2008) are Joel Smirnoff and Ronald Copes on violin, Samuel Rhodes on viola, and Joel 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 the Library 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, and Milton Babbitt. It has also performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Yo-Yo Ma, and Maurizio Pollini.

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 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

*1946　 Robert Koff
*1958　 Isidore Cohen
*1966　 Earl Carlyss
*1986 　Joel Smirnoff
*1997　 Ronald Copes

Viola

*1946　 Raphael Hillyer
*1969　 Samuel Rhodes

Violoncello

*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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