Aviv Quartet
April 14th and 15th, 2012
- SATURDAY, SALON CONCERT, APRIL 14, 2012
- Schulhoff: Quartet No. 1
- Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D Major
- SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012
- Mozart: Quartet in D Major, K.499, “Hoffmeister”
- Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3
- Dohnanyi: Quartet No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 33
The Aviv Quartet, founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1997, has won awards at competitions around the world, including the Grand Prix and four special prizes at the 3rd Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet also won first prize at the Charles Hennen Competition in The Netherlands, the Schubert Prize in Austria, and International Critics Prize at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition in France. The quartet has performed at leading worldwide venues from Carnegie Hall to London’s Royal Festival Hall. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) referred to the Aviv as “an ensemble that blends potent interpretive skills with technical precision; every phrase has a purpose, every detail emerges as a crucial element in the musical message.”
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