The Orion String Quartet is one of the most sought-after ensembles in the United States. They remain on the cutting edge of programming with numerous commissions from composers Chick Corea, , John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, Marc Neikrug, Peter One Thousand Twentieth Program of the 2007-08 Season Lieberson, and Wynton Marsalis, and enjoy a creative partnership with ______the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. With over 50 performances this year, the members of the Orion String Quartet—violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips (brothers who share the first violin chair Orion String Quartet equally), violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy—have Daniel Phillips, Violin ‡ worked with such legendary figures as Pablo Casals, , Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, András Schiff, and Todd Phillips, Violin * members of TASHI and the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, Steven Tenenbom, Viola Végh, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. Their repertoire, this season, includes cycles of Beethoven and Mozart, in addition to Timothy Eddy, Cello mixed programs of Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Dvořák, Bartók, with Zwilich, and Schulhoff. The Orion serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and New York’s Mannes Edward Auer, Piano College of Music and is Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University. ______In August 2006, the Orion String Quartet performed at the Music@Menlo Festival and gave the world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57 (1940) ...... Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 at La Jolla Summerfest. This was followed by Prelude: Lento (1906-1975) performances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a co-commissioner Fugue: Adagio of this work along with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Scherzo: Allegretto and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The quartet was invited back Intermezzo: Lento Finale: Allegretto to Indiana University for the fourth consecutive season and is now Artist- in-Residence at its prestigious music school. Additional engagements in North America take them to Boston, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, and Kalamazoo, Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 ...... MI. In April 2006, Koch released The Adventures of Hippocrates, a Assai sostenuto – Allegro (1770-1827) disc of Chick Corea, John Harbison, and Marc Neirug compositions. Allegro ma non tanto The quartet is currently recording the complete Beethoven quartets Canzona di ringraziamente: Molto adagio for Koch Records, and the first disc was released in October 2006. Alla Marcia, assai vivace Heard frequently on National Public Radio’s Performance Allegro appassionato Today and WNYC Live, the Orion String Quartet has appeared three times on ABC’s Good Morning America, and on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts and PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center. In October 2004, ______they participated in the first WNYC Radio collaboration with BBC World Service’s popular syndicated program, Music Party. * Violin I in Shostakovich Auer Concert Hall ‡ Violin I in Beethoven Monday Evening Formed in 1987, the Quartet chose its name from the Orion April Twenty-First constellation as a metaphor for the unique personality each musician Eight O’Clock brings to the group in its collective pursuit of the highest musical ideals.

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