Cypress String Quartet

The Cypress String Quartet was a professional classical chamber music ensemble founded in San Francisco, California in 1996. At the time of its disbanding in June 2016, the quartet's members were:

The quartet maintained a busy performing, recording, teaching, and touring schedule, traveling approximately 100 days each year throughout much of the United States and internationally with occasional concert tours in Mexico, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Japan. The Cypress was Quartet-in-Residence at San Jose State University from 2003 to 2009.

Recordings

Recent commercial recordings include:

"Brahms: String Sextets with Barry Shiffm as n, viola and Zuill Bailey, cello" (released in January 2017 on AVIE Records)

"Beethoven: The Late String Quartets" (reissued in May 2016 on AVIE Records)

"Beethoven : The Early String Quartets" ( released in May 2016 on AVIE Records)

"Beethoven: The Middle String Quartets" (released in November 2014 on AVIE Records)

"Schubert: Cello Quintet and Quartettsatz" (released May 2014 on AVIE Records)

"The American Album" (reissue in 2013 on AVIE Records)

"Dvorak: Cypresses & Op.106" (released February 2013 on AVIE Records)

Other recordings released by the Cypress Quartet include:

Call and Response

"Call & Response" is an annual commissioning and audience development program created by the Cypress Quartet as a method of demonstrating to contemporary audiences the ongoing process of inspiration, and to help make clear the relevance of older music to today's culture and society. The 2010 Call & Response program (the 11th consecutive year of the project) saw the World Premiere of Elena Ruehr's "Bel Canto" string quartet based on the novel of the same name by Ann Patchett. With the theme of the 2010 Call & Response program "Lyrical Music Inspired by Literature," Dr. Ruehr's new work was paired with Mozart's String Quartet in D Major K.575 "The Violet" and Schubert's String Quartet in D Minor D.810 "Death & The Maiden." The 2010 concert took place at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco's Civic Center district (for the second year in a row; the first 9 occasions of Call & Response were presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts FORUM Theater, and was attended by over 500 people, 200 of which were middle and high school students who had heard the Cypress Quartet perform excerpts of the program in their classrooms during outreach activities in the weeks leading up to the public performance on February 26, 2010.

Previous Call & Response programs have involved the commission of new works from the following composers:

References

  1. ↑ Cheinin, Richard (March 15, 2014). "Review: Cypress Quartet takes trip with Tsontakis". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
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