Left to right: Robert Mann, Isidore Cohen, Claus Adam, Raphael Hillyer
The Juilliard String Quartet is a classical music string quartet founded in 1946 at the Juilliard School in New York. The original members were Robert Mann and Robert Koff on violin, Raphael Hillyer on viola, and Arthur Winograd on cello; Current members (as of 2009) are Nick Eanet and Ronald Copes on violin, Samuel Rhodes on viola, and Joel Krosnick on cello. Joel Smirnoff will be leaving the quartet after its 2008-2009 season to become president of the Cleveland Institute of Music. The quartet is currently quartet-in-residence both at the Juilliard School and the Library of Congress. It has also received numerous awards including four Grammys and membership in the National Academy Recording Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame.
The quartet plays a wide range of classical music, having recorded works by composers such as Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bartók, Debussy, and Shostakovich, while also promoting more contemporary composers such as Elliott Carter, Ralph Shapey, and Milton Babbitt. It has also performed with other noted musicians such as Aaron Copland, Yo-Yo Ma, and Maurizio Pollini. They have participated on the soundtrack of Immortal Beloved movie [1] .
The quartet began recording with Sony Classical (formerly Columbia Records and CBS Masterworks) in 1949, and the group's discography currently numbers over 100 items, including repertoire well-travelled and unfamiliar. Their early 1950s recordings of the six Bartok string quartets on the Columbia Records label and various works recorded for the RCA Living Stereo label (c. 1958-1962) are particularly acclaimed.
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Members
First violin
- 1946 Robert Mann
- 1997 Joel Smirnoff
- 2009 Nick Eanet
Second violin
- 1946 Robert Koff
- 1958 Isidore Cohen
- 1966 Earl Carlyss
- 1986 Joel Smirnoff
- 1997 Ronald Copes
Viola
- 1946 Raphael Hillyer
- 1969 Samuel Rhodes
Violoncello
- 1946 Arthur Winograd
- 1955 Claus Adam
- 1974 Joel Krosnick
Awards and recognitions
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
- The Juilliard String Quartet for Beethoven: The Late String Quartets (1985)
- The Juilliard String Quartet for Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings (Complete) (1978)
- The Juilliard String Quartet for Debussy: Quartet in G Minor/Ravel: Quartet in F (1972)
- The Juilliard String Quartet for Bartók: The Six String Quartets (1966)
References
External links
- Juilliard String Quartet Juilliard String Quartet official site
- Juilliard String Quartet Sony Classical official site
- Art of the States: Juilliard String Quartet
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