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The JUPITER STRING QUARTET was just awarded a 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant. In January 2007, the Quartet won the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, a prize which “honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry demonstrates that it is in the process of establishing a major career.” These prestigious awards followed the Quartet’s earlier distinctions in 2004, having captured the Grand Prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and First Prize in the 8th Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they were also awarded the Szekely Prize for the best performance of a Beethoven quartet. The Austin Critics Table honored them with the Award for Outstanding Chamber Music Performance in 2006. During the 2007-2008 season, the Quartet begins its three-year residency with Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two. Their extensive appearances at major venues throughout the United States began in the summer of 2007 with a return engagement to the Caramoor International Music Festival, as well as performances at the Austin Chamber Music Festival, the Ruidoso Chamber Music Festival (NM), the Bard Music Festival (NY) and the Skaneateles Festival (NY). In February and March they toured California with fellow YCA artist Jose Franch-Ballester. This spring, they also give performances at Harvard Musical Association, Missouri State University, Vanguard Concerts (OH), the University of Georgia, Brown University, Hudson Valley Music Club (NY), Adelphi University (NY), The Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), Albany Concert Association (GA), Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, Festival de Mexico en el Centro Historico in Mexico City, Wolfeboro Friends of Music (NH), Charleston Chamber Music Society (WV), and Chamber Music Society of Detroit. This season the Quartet also released their first CD, of music by Shostakovich and Britten, on the Marquis Classics label. Winners of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Quartet holds YCA’s Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair. At the Auditions, they were also awarded the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Prize, which sponsored their debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize, the La Jolla Music Society Prize, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival Prize, and the Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center Prize. The Quartet has performed at such venues as New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, and has been enthusiastically received at major music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Honest Brook Music Festival, the Tuckamore Festival, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival. They have collaborated with such artists as Roger Tapping, James Buswell, Paul Katz, Yong Hi Moon, and the Miami String Quartet. They have been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, on WQXR in New York, on WGBH in Boston, and on Chicago’s classical station, WFMT 98.7. The Jupiter String Quartet places a strong emphasis on developing relationships with future classical music audiences through outreach work in the school system and educational performances, which have included Adventure Concerts for the Midori Foundation. They also enjoy working with aspiring chamber musicians, and have served on the faculties of the chamber music programs at the Snowmass Suzuki Institute and the Austin Chamber Music Festival. From 2004 to 2006, the Quartet was enrolled in the Professional String Quartet Training Program at New England Conservatory, earning Master of Music degrees in Chamber Music. |
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BARTOK Quartet No. 2
