Colorado String Quartet: Brahms, String Quartets Op. 51
The Colorado String Quartet
Biography
In a ten-day period in 1983, the COLORADO QUARTET made
history by winning two
of the music world's highest honors: the Naumburg Chamber
Music Award and First Prize at
the Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Since that time it has been praised on four
continents as one of the finest quartets of our time,
cited for its musical integrity, impassioned
playing and lyrical finesse.
Currently based in the New York City area, the Colorado
quartet appears regularly in
major halls around the globe. Highlights of their career
include tours of more than twenty
countries, New York concerts in Carnegie Hall and on the
Great Performers at Lincoln Center
series, appearances at Washington DC's Kennedy Center and
at the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam, and performances at festivals in Scandinavia,
the Czech Republic, and at the Casals
Festival in Puerto Rico. The Colorado Quartet celebrated
the 1995 Béla Bartók centennial with
the first complete performance of the Bartók String Quartets
to take place in Philadelphia. The Quartet memmbers have
been featured on radio and television worldwide, with
numerous radio
broadcasts in America, England and Canada, as well as
television programs in The Netherlands,
Norway, Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico, Their recordings
include works by Mozart, Beethoven,
Brahms and contemporary composers on CD's from Fidelio,
Albany Records and Parnassus
Records.
The Colorado Quartet is equally at home performing
standard literature or newer works,
and has premiered compositions by leading composers.such as
Ezra Laderman and Karel Husa,
as well as composers of the younger generation. They have
received grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Aaron Copland Music Fund.
The members of the Colorado Quartet are inspiring
teachers, who have held residencies at
Swarthmore and Skidmore Colleges, Philadelphia's New School
of Music and Amhesrt College
in Massachusetts. They are founders and Artistic Directors
of the Soundfest Chamber Music
Festival and Institute of String Quartets in Falmouth,
Massachusetts.
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Colorado String Quartet:
Julie Rosenfeld, Violin 1 - Deborah Redding, Violin 2 - Francesca Martin Silos, Viola - Diane Chaplin, Cello
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