The Dover Quartet is prominently featured in Classical Voice North America as a string quartet poised to take up the mantle of the Emerson Quartet as one of the world’s preeminent string quartets.
Dover Quartet Names Julianne Lee as New Violist
Second Installment of Beethoven Cycle Recordings Released
After the critically acclaimed release of the opus 18 quartets, the Dover Quartet follows this up with the recent release of the Middle quartets by Beethoven.
Now available for purchase at Amazon and Cedille, or stream through Spotify and Apple Music.
Dover Quartet Receives First GRAMMY Nomination
The Dover Quartet is thrilled to receive its first GRAMMY nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in recognition of its recording, The Schumann Quartets. For more information about other category nominees and how to watch the 63rd GRAMMY Awards Show on March 14, 2021, click here.
First Installment of Beethoven Cycle Recordings Released
Embarking on a three year project recording all the iconic Beethoven quartets, the Dover Quartet has just released the first installment featuring all six opus 18 string quartets from Beethoven’s early period through Cedille Records.
Now available for purchase at Amazon and Cedille, or stream through Spotify and Apple Music.
Dover Quartet Joins Curtis Institute of Music Faculty as Penelope P. Watkins First Ensemble in Residence
In an innovative residency combining three crucial aspects for a modern chamber music career, the Dover Quartet joins the faculty of their alma mater, The Curtis Institute of Music, with a unique emphasis on technology, teaching world-class students, and continuing a robust touring schedule.
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Strings Attached Update
The streaming of Strings Attached, the documentary about the internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet, was the #1 viewed film at the Martha's Vineyard Filmusic Fest, and its availability has been extended for 2 more weeks! Don't miss this limited engagement.
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Dover Quartet Documentary Premiere
The Dover Quartet is featured in a new documentary, Strings Attached, directed by filmmaker Bruce Broder. It premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard Filmusic Festival from June 20-July 1, 2020.
To learn more about Strings Attached and how you can see it, go to the film’s website, StringsAttachedMovie.com
Screening info can be found at: mvfilmsociety.com
Dover Quartet Releases all-Schumann Album
The Dover’s new Schumann CD was released on Azica Records in October 2019, comprising Schumann’s three string quartets. Written in 1842, the three quartets mark the apotheosis of Schumann’s development as a composer. Find it on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you stream your music!
Dover Quartet Performs at Emanuel Ax Birthday Celebration
Never one to miss a great party, the Dover Quartet took a three-day break from annual duties at the Artosphere Festival – one of their longest-standing supporters – and jetted to London last weekend, where they took part in the Wigmore Hall’s 70th-birthday celebration of their dear friend and collaborator Emanuel Ax. It’s not just any string quartet that a legend like Ax invites to play with him: he first heard the Dover at Tanglewood and was so taken by what he heard that he invited them to perform with him first at Northwestern, now at Wigmore, and in the fall at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.
Australian Debut
The intrepid Dover Quartet made its Australian debut in April, a trip that was made complete by the feeding of kangaroos in Tasmania! The four-day Musica Viva spectacular in Sydney featured dozens of fabulous musicians, including the Dover’s longtime collaborator Edgar Meyer.
The Quartet made quite an impression on their Australian audience as Limelight magazine raved, “…the quartet gave a taut, fiery performance of meticulous ensemble work and fiery spirit.” The Dover is enjoying some well-earned time off this week before returning to Carnegie Hall for a program featuring the music of Tchaikovsky, Bartók, and Dvořák that will mark the Quartet’s fourth performance at Carnegie in as many years.
Dover Quartet Celebrates Leon Fleisher’s 90th Birthday
Earlier this month the Dover Quartet joined Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, and the star himself in three concerts honoring the legendary Leon Fleisher. The programs – performed at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia’s Perelman Hall, and the Kennedy Center – included Fleisher’s deeply felt Sheep May Safely Graze as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 with the Dover. Congratulatory videos from luminaries like Mitsuko Uchida, Yuja Wang, Richard Goode, and even Ruth Bader Ginsburg rounded out the evening. As the Classical Post wrote, “It was a magically musical evening to celebrate a legend in the classical music world.”
Musical America's review of the Carnegie Hall performance sums it up perfectly: "The best was kept for last: With a wonderful sense of generations being bridged, Fleisher and the Dover Quartet (plus Rachel Calin on bass) performed Mozart’s own reduction of his Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major."
Dover Quartet Plays Back-to-Back Concerts in NYC (May 5 & 6), before Intensive Summer of Festivals
On the heels of an extensive German tour, the Dover Quartet – “one of the world’s finest young string quartets” (New Yorker) – comes back to New York City for a weekend of back-to-back appearances. On Saturday, May 5, the group continues its three-year tenure as the first Ensemble-in-Residence of the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts with a program of Haydn, Borodin, and Mozart. The following day, on Sunday, May 6, the quartet heads a few blocks further downtown for a pairing of Mozart and Mendelssohn in the weekly GatherNYC series at SubCulture. These Big Apple dates punctuate a full spring that also sees the Dovers return to Northwestern University for the next installment in their specially created faculty residency, before embarking on an intensive transatlantic summer festival lineup. Highlighted by performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, Norway’s Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, Wyoming’s Grand Teton Music Festival, Oregon’s Chamber Music Northwest, Massachusetts’s Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the summer caps another banner season for the 2016-18 Cleveland Quartet Award-winning group that is, as the Washington Post observes, “the very model of a modern young classical ensemble.”
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The Dover Quartet is named Kennedy Center Quartet-In-Residence for Three-year Term
In 2018-2019, The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center is joined by the Dover Quartet, the Center’s new Quartet-in-Residence.
The season opens with the Dover Quartet’s return to the Fortas series in a concert that marks the beginning of a three-year term as the Kennedy Center’s Quartet-in Residence. In its new role during the 2018-2019 season, the ensemble performs on programs throughout the Kennedy Center – From the Fortas series to the Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates’s KC Jukebox series. The Quartet’s residency is also intended to provide the ensemble with tools to expand their education footprint, developing a mobile capsule program, reaching school children while touring, and utilizing the Kennedy Center’s vast educational network throughout the United States.
Equally at home in canonical repertoire as well as the newest reaches of contemporary classical music, the Dover’s first concert in its new capacity includes Webern’s Langsamer Satz, Schubert’s Quartet in G Major, and Bate’s From Amber Frozen. The Quartet plans to perform one of Bates’s string quartets in each of the first two years of its residency, and the Kennedy Center will commission a third string quartet for the Dover Quartet’s third year.
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Dover Quartet Makes Carnegie Hall Mainstage Debut This Sunday, January 21, with Free, Live Webcast at medici.tv
This Sunday, January 21, the Dover Quartet – “one of the world’s finest young string quartets” (New Yorker) – joins Janine Jansen and Jean-Yves Thibaudet at New York’s Carnegie Hall for Chausson’s haunting yet rarely programmed Concerto in D for violin, piano, and string quartet. Marking the Cleveland Quartet Award- and 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning group’s Stern Auditorium debut, the concert will be filmed and streamed live, free of charge, to audiences around the world at medici.tv, after which the webcast will be available for 90 days for free, on-demand viewing.
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On Heels of Best-selling Cedille Album, Voices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945, Dover Quartet Plays NYC Peoples’ Symphony Concert, Makes Debuts at Library of Congress & Carnegie Hall Mainstage
Following the October release of the best-selling albumVoices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945 – which broke the top ten on Billboard’s traditional classical chart – the Cleveland Quartet Award- and Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning Dover Quartetstops in New York City on November 18 for a Peoples’ Symphony concert, featuring World War II-era music from the album and Romantic quartets by Mendelssohn and Schumann. Other fall/winter highlights include a debut at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in December, and the group’s mainstage Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam Concertgebouw debuts in January.
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Dover Quartet to Give Concert in Charlottesville, VA on September 23, with Proceeds to Benefit Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
The Dover Quartet will give an hour-long benefit concert in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, September 23 at 4pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center (MLK PAC). Though admission is free, the Dover Quartet and the presenting organization, Tuesday Evening Concert Series (TECS), will be encouraging audience members to make donations, all of which will go to the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF) in the Heal Charlottesville Fund, which have been providing resources to community members impacted by the tragic events last month.
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New Album, Plus Return to Kennedy Center and Debuts at Concertgebouw, Library of Congress, and Carnegie’s Main Stage Highlight Dover Quartet’s 2017-18 Season
The Dover Quartet launches the season with the release on October 13 of its second recording on the Cedille label. Titled Voices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945, the new album takes listeners on a powerful, often harrowing, journey through three searing works written during World War II, by Viktor Ullmann, Shostakovich, and Simon Laks, all three of whom also feature in the Dovers’ full 2017-18 concert lineup. Other highlights include their debuts at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Washington’s Library of Congress; their first mainstage appearance at Carnegie Hall; and a pair of performances at the Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the Emerson String Quartet and in the trailblazing KC Jukebox series. Along with returns to Philadelphia’sKimmel Center, the People’s Symphony Concerts of New York, and a host of other U.S. presenters, the ensemble looks forward to a weeklong residency at Canada’s Lunenburg Academy of Music and multiple performances throughout the season in the third year of their specially created faculty residency at Northwestern University. The Dovers also complete shooting on a feature-length documentary by award-winning filmmaker Bruce Broder, which follows them to Salzburg, the Kennedy Center, and other recent stops on their meteoric musical journey. Bringing rare musicianship and an infectious joy in music-making to repertoire ranging from Mozart and Tchaikovsky to Schoenberg, Duke Ellington, and Derek Bermel, the Dover Quartet is, as the Washington Post observes, “the very model of a modern young classical ensemble.”
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Dover Quartet Celebrates Relaunch of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks with Special Performance at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge (May 30)
“I’ll see you again in 25 years,” said Laura Palmer to Agent Dale Cooper in the final episode of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. This May, just over a quarter-century later, fans can hope to find that promise fulfilled, when the surreal cult TV series finally returns to the small screen. To celebrate the relaunch, on May 30 the Dover Quartet previews selections from Twin Peaks Fantasy – a new work-in-progress by Daniel Schlosberg that draws on Angelo Badalamenti’s original Grammy Award-winning score – as the centerpiece of a special performance at downtown New York City hotspot Le Poisson Rouge. Rounding out the all-contemporary program are quartet arrangements of Badalamenti’s own, haunting Snapshot from Prague and other excerpts from his atmospheric Twin Peaks score, together with two recent commissions for the Dovers that share something of its distinctive ambience: Pale Blue Dot, David Ludwig’s depiction of Earth as seen from deep space, and Plan & Elevation (The Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks) by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw.
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Dover Quartet Adds Avery Fisher Career Grant to Growing String of Honors
The Dover Quartet has been named as the recipient of a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of classical music’s most prestigious awards. Chosen for their outstanding artistry, the Dovers will be honored today (Wednesday, March 15) at WQXR’s Greene Space, where – being currently on tour in Europe – they will be represented by a short video excerpt.
Already recognized with a string of honors that include the Cleveland Quartet Award and an inaugural Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the Dovers follow in the footsteps of such previous Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients as pianists Kirill Gerstein and Yuja Wang, clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinists Augustin Hadelich and Leila Josefowicz, and the Pacifica Quartet. Their fellow 2017 recipients are violinists Chad Hoopes and Stephen Waarts and pianist Haochen Zhang, like whom they look forward to receiving a cash award of $25,000 and being featured on WNET Thirteen’s program NYC-ARTS.
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