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YOUNG SOUNDS FROM NEW YORK

ISIDORE STRING QUARTET

They are currently the USA’s hippest string quartet export: the Isidore String Quartet. Only three years after its founding, the New York-based ensemble won the 14th Banff Competition, followed by an Avery Fisher Career Grant one year later, catapulting the quartet to the top league of chamber music. The eponymous Isidore is the violinist Isidore Cohen, a former member of the legendary Juilliard String Quartet, in whose spirit the musicians combine tradition and innovation. They consider quartet playing not as an elite artform, but as the medium of an approachable, shared musical experience. In this spirit, they are also protagonists of the project »Music Heals Us«, giving underprivileged people access to classical music. And as if all that weren’t enough, there is the concert program, which combines Mozart’s so-called »Dissonance Quartet« and Dvořák’s Opus 106 with a work by the American jazz musician and composer Billy Childs.


ISIDORE STRING QUARTET:
ADRIAN STEELE
VIOLIN
PHOENIX AVALON VIOLIN
DEVIN MOORE VIOLA
JOSHUA MCCLENDON CELLO

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 19 in C-major K. 465 »Dissonance Quartet«
Billy Childs String Quartet No. 3 »Unrequited«
Antonín Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G-major Op. 106

7 pm
Palais im Großen Garten