Merkin Concert Hall Tuesday, January 17, 2011 at 2 pm

Kaufman Center presents Attacca Quartet Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violin; Luke Fleming, viola; Andrew Yee, cello Tuesday Matinees

HAYDN Op. 77, No. 2, Hob. III:82 “Lobkowitz” (1799) Allegro moderato Menuet: Presto Andante Finale: Vivace assai

MOZART String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 “Prussian” (1789) Allegretto Andante Menuetto: Allegretto Allegretto

Intermission

SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824) Allegro Andante con moto Scherzo: Allegro molto; Trio Presto

About the Artists

The Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premiere young performing ensembles. Comprised of violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee, the Attacca Quartet was formed at The in 2003. First Prize Winner of the 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, top prizewinner and Listeners’ Choice Award recipient at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, and winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the Quartet made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. They have appeared there on numerous occasions since. In 2009, the Quartet was privileged to coach with John Adams and perform his String Quartet (2008) in Alice Tully Hall. 2010 marked the beginning of “The 68,” an ambitious project in which the Attacca Quartet will perform all 68 Haydn string quartets on a special series they created in New York. The Attacca Quartet has also recently been named the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet. In addition to Juilliard, the Attacca Quartet is the current resident quartet of the Northern Lights Music Festival. In 2007 and 2011 they were the artists-in-residence at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, working closely with the Tokyo and Vermeer Quartets. Also in 2011, they were the quartet-in-residence at Michigan’s Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and will return in 2012. The Quartet has also distinguished itself as one of three string quartets chosen worldwide to participate in the Pacific Music Festival’s 2006 String Quartet Course in Sapporo, Japan. Other highlights include resident quartet at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, and participation in the International Program for Advance String Quartets at the Music@Menlo Festival in 2005. The Attacca Quartet has performed in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as a part of the Juilliard Young Artists and Their Mentors Series, sharing a program with the Juilliard String Quartet. They further represented Juilliard in the Guarneri String Quartet’s 40th Anniversary master class and on the Kennedy Center Conservatory Project concert series. The Quartet’s collaborations include pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank, violinist Arnold Steinhardt and the as well as participation in the ’s International String Quartet Seminar at Stony Brook University. The Attacca Quartet has engaged in both educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the 2006 Animato Summer Music Camp at Florida International University in Miami. They devoted a week in 2006 to outreach concerts for all ages in Hickory, North Carolina, in a partnership with the Western Piedmont Symphony.They have participated in similar projects as the featured ensemble with both the Amherst Symphony Orchestra in Buffalo, NY, and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Festival in South Carolina. In 2008, the Attacca Quartet taught and coached chamber music as the quartet-in-residence at Hunter College in Manhattan. They also taught alongside the Tokyo String Quartet at the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival (Washington). In 2009, the quartet was string quartet-in-residence for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. For the past four years, they have performed in benefit concerts supporting the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s efforts to combat Parkinson’s disease. The Attacca Quartet has also participated in seminars and master classes with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Miró, Tokyo and St. Lawrence string quartets. Comprised of graduates of The Juilliard School, the members of the Attacca Quartet currently reside in New York City. They consider among their mentors the members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence Quartets.