Composers String Quartet

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The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers[1], including quartets by Elliott Carter[2] and Ruth Crawford Seeger.[3] Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, who premiered the work in 1986.[4] The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively.[5]

The quartet was founded in 1965[6], and remained active until the late 1990s. During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize.[7] In 1975 the group became the quartet-in-residence at Columbia University, remaining at Columbia for at least two decades.[8]

[edit] Members

  • Matthew Raimondi, violin
  • Anahid Ajemian, violin
  • Bernard Zaslav, viola (succeeded by Jean Dupouy, Jean Dane, and Ron Carbone; the quartet also recorded with violist Maureen Gallagher)
  • Seymour Barab, cello (succeeded by Michael Rudiakov and Mark Shuman)

[edit] References

  1. ^ CHAMBER: COMPOSERS QUARTET (Nov. 27, 1982).
  2. ^ "The Carter Vogue", TIME Magazine, Feb. 10, 1975
  3. ^ Tick, Judith. Ruth Crawford Seeger's Different Tunes.
  4. ^ "Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 4", Notes, 48:2 (Dec. 1991), p. 689.
  5. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  6. ^ About the Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music.
  7. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  8. ^ Composers String Quartet to Perform at Miller, Columbia University Record, Oct. 28, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 8
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