CASSATT QUARTET
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Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment,” the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. The Quartet’s prolific discography – featured three times in Alex Ross’s “10 Best Classical Recordings” column in The New Yorker – includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels.
The Cassatt Quartet’s 2023-2024 season includes major performances and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Adolphus Hailstork, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, and Daniel S. Godfrey; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area, including at Symphony Space and Bargemusic; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain.
The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.
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Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment,” the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory.
Highlights of the Cassatt Quartet’s upcoming season include major performances, premieres, and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Chen Yi, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Adolphus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, Shirish Korde, Anthony Paul De Ritis, Allen Shawn, and Daniel S. Godfrey; collaborations with Ursula Oppens, David Jackson, Dov Scheindlin, Dominique Eade, Eliot Fisk, Doris Stevenson, Magdalena Baczewska, Haim Avitsur, and Kyo-Shin-An Arts; hometown concerts in the New York area, including performances at Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space, Bethany Arts in Ossining, and Bargemusic in Brooklyn; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain. The CSQ’s 2023-2024 teaching schedule includes masterclasses and residencies at Texas Tech University, University of Texas Permian Basin, College of the Holy Cross, and Columbia University’s Music Department and Office of the Core Curriculum.
The Quartet’s prolific discography – featured three times in Alex Ross’s “10 Best Classical Recordings” column in The New Yorker – includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels. The CSQ’s playing has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today,” WGBH Boston, WQXR and WNYC of New York, Canada’s CBC Radio, and Radio France.
The Cassatts are devoted to nurturing young musicians, and have given classes at Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and Syracuse Universities; the University of Pennsylvania and Bard Conservatory; the American Academy in Rome and the Toho School in Tokyo; and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. The CSQ is in residence annually at the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music in Vinalhaven, Maine; and at Cassatt in the Basin!, an educational residency in West Texas.
Named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower; violist Rosemary Nelis; and cellist Gwen Krosnick.
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Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment,” the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. The Cassatts have given concerts on the quartet of Stradivari instruments at the Library of Congress; and, as resident quartet at the University of Buffalo, performed three complete Slee Beethoven String Quartet cycles.
Highlights of the Cassatt Quartet’s upcoming season include major performances, premieres, and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Chen Yi, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Adolphus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, Shirish Korde, Anthony Paul De Ritis, Allen Shawn, and Daniel S. Godfrey; collaborations with Ursula Oppens, David Jackson, Dov Scheindlin, Dominique Eade, Eliot Fisk, Doris Stevenson, Magdalena Baczewska, Haim Avitsur, and Kyo-Shin-An Arts; hometown concerts in the New York area, including performances at Cutting Edge Concerts at Symphony Space, Bethany Arts in Ossining, and Bargemusic in Brooklyn; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain. The CSQ’s 2023-2024 teaching schedule includes masterclasses and residencies at Texas Tech University, College of the Holy Cross, and Columbia University’s Music Department and Office of the Core Curriculum.
The Quartet’s prolific discography – featured three times in Alex Ross’s “10 Best Classical Recordings” column in The New Yorker – includes over forty recordings, among them performances of music by Steven Stucky, Daniel S. Godfrey, Gerald Cohen, Sebastian Currier, and Samuel Adler. They have recorded for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels. The CSQ’s playing has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today,” WGBH Boston, WQXR and WNYC of New York, Canada’s CBC Radio, and Radio France.
Formed in 1985, the Cassatt String Quartet served as the inaugural group in the Juilliard School’s Graduate String Quartet Residency. In the decades since, they have received major awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the USArtists International, Chamber Music America, and ASCAP; the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Associations; the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Meet the Composer; and the Amphion, Copland, Fromm, and Alice M. Ditson Music Foundations. Since 1995, the ensemble has been on the artist roster for the New York State Council on the Arts, which enables the CSQ to play community concerts throughout New York City and New York State.
The CSQ has performed nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. The New York Times praised the group’s “bold and probing account” of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8; SoundWordSight described the quartet’s "wonderful performance, with a beautifully integrated sound;” and ConcertoNet wrote: "Wherever one encounters the Cassatt Quartet, one is astonished both at their prowess and their unfailing inspiration.”
The Cassatts are devoted to nurturing the younger generation of musicians, and have given classes at Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and Syracuse Universities; the University of Pennsylvania and Bard Conservatory of Music; the American Academy in Rome and the Toho School in Tokyo; and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. The CSQ has been in residence since 1995 at the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music in Vinalhaven, Maine; and, since 2005, at Cassatt in the Basin!, an educational residency in West Texas.
Noted for its brilliance in both contemporary and traditional repertoire, the Quartet has collaborated with members of the Tokyo, Cleveland and Vermeer Quartets; pianists Ursula Oppens and Marc-André Hamelin; clarinetist David Shifrin, flutist Ransom Wilson, and jazz pianist Fred Hersch; the Trisha Brown Dance Company; and composers Louis Andriessen, Kaija Saariaho, Joan Tower, John Corigliano, Tania León, Shulamit Ran, Chen Yi, and Augusta Read Thomas, and Victoria Bond.
Named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower; violist Rosemary Nelis; and cellist Gwen Krosnick.
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