The Escher String Quartet is an American string quartet based in New York City , where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center .[ 1] M. C. Escher .
Biography
The Escher Quartet was founded in 2005 in New York City, where its original members were studying at the Manhattan School of Music .[ 2] [ 1] [ 3] Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall in London.[ 1]
The quartet served on the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme from 2010 until 2012.[ 4] Pinchas Zukerman to serve as Quartet in Residence at the Young Artists Programme at Canada's National Arts Centre[ 1] Itzhak Perlman to the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, New York. From 2007 until 2009, the quartet was in residence at Stony Brook University .[ 5] Emerson String Quartet and has collaborated with artists that include Leon Fleischer, David Finckel, Wu Han, Benjamin Grosvenor, jazz vocalist Kurt Elling , and jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman[ 1] [ 6]
In 2013 the Escher Quartet was awarded the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Career Grant .[ 7] [ 8]
In 2023–2024 the Escher Quartet served as season artists for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center .[ 9]
Members
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin
Brendan Speltz, violin
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello
Recordings
The Escher String Quartet is best known for its recordings of Alexander von Zemlinsky 's complete string quartets.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
Music@Menlo : Bridging the Ages , Disc 5. 2008. Music@Menlo LiveAmy Cheney Beach Piano Quintet / Alan Louis Smith Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman . 2011. Chamber Music Society Studio Recordings
Stony Brook Soundings , Vol. 1, 2011. Bridge Records [ 13] Alexander Zemlinsky String Quartets, Vol. 1, 2013. Naxos
Alexander Zemlinsky String Quartets, Vol. 2, 2014. Naxos
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 1 in E Flat Major and No. 4 in E Minor, 2015. BIS [ 12]
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 2 in A Minor and No. 3 in D Major, 2015. BIS [ 12]
Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 5 in E Flat Major and No. 6 in F Minor, 2016. BIS [ 14]
Dvořák: American Quartet; Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1; Borodin: Quartet No. 2, 2018.[ 15] BIS
Samuel Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op.11; Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1 (From the Salvation Army) and String Quartet No. 2, 2021.[ 16] BIS
Pierre Jalbert: String Quartet No. 4, Air in Motion, and String Quartet No. 6 (“Canticle”), 2023. Orchard Classics – with Carol Wincenc (flute)
Pierre Jalbert: String Quartet No. 5 Terra Incognita , 2023. Orchard Classics
References
^ a b c d e Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center . Escher String Quartet . Retrieved 13 June 2014.^ Woolfe, Zachary (10 November 2011). "Precision And Polish For Quartet On the Rise" . The New York Times
^ Evans, Rian (27 June 2013). "Escher String Quartet – review" . The Guardian
^ BBC Radio 3 . BBC New Generation Artists . Retrieved 13 June 2014.^ Stony Brook University ."New Southampton Sunday Music Series Kicks Off With Escher String Quartet" Archived 2013-10-02 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 13 June 2014.^ Stony Brook University . Emerson String Quartet Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 13 June 2014.^ Lincoln Center . Avery Fisher Career Grants 2013 . Retrieved 26 June 2014.^ "The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center | Press & News » CMS Two Artists Dominate 2015 Martin e. Segal Awards" . Archived from the original on 2015-05-03. Retrieved 2015-05-27 .^ "Artists" . Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center . Retrieved 23 April 2024 .^ Clements, Andrew (22 August 2013), "Zemlinsky: String Quartets Nos 3 and 4; Two pieces – review" . The Guardian
^ Dubins, Jerry (January 2014). "Review: Zemlinsky: String Quartets: No. 3, Op. 19; No. 4, Op. 25, "Suite." Two Movements for String Quartet" . Fanfare
^ a b c BIS [1] . "BIS Artists: Escher String Quartet ". Retrieved 12 October 2015
^ Cahill, Greg (October 2010). "An Impressive Collection of Modern Chamber Works from Stony Brook" . Strings .
^ BIS: Mendelssohn - String Quartets Nos 5 & 6, http://bis.se/label/bis/mendelssohn-string-quartets-nos-5-6
^ BIS: Dvořák: American Quartet; Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1; Borodin: Quartet No. 2 . Retrieved 4 April 2019.
^ BIS:
Samuel Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op.11; Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1 (From the Salvation Army) and String Quartet No. 2 . Retrieved 9 May 2022.
External links
International National Artists
