Eric Lewis, violin
Chris Finckel, cello
John Dexter, viola
Calvin Wiersma, Violin
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Critically acclaimed as
one of America’s leading ensembles, the Manhattan String Quartet is
celebrating its 39th season this year. Michael Steinberg of the Boston
Globe hailed them as
“a national treasure.” Notable among its many recordings is the complete
cycle of 15 Shostakovich string quartets which TIME Magazine called “One
of the most important musical events of 1991”.
The group has been
Quartet-in-Residence at Colgate University for the past twenty years,
and has also held similar posts at the Manhattan School of Music,
Cornell University, Grinnell College, Western Connecticut State
University, the Chamber Music Institute in Racine, Wisconsin and
Michigan’s Interlochen National Music Camp (for 21 summers).
The Quartet appears
regularly in the musical capitals of Europe including Paris, Prague,
Budapest, Leipzig and Vienna. In 2005, they presented the Shostakovich
quartet cycle in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan in addition to performances in
the United States including New York City.
Since 1981 the Manhattan
String Quartet has hosted annual teaching and performing conferences, in
the United States and Europe, for young professional quartets and
amateur string players.
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David Clampitt
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DAVID CLAMPITT,
music theorist and violinist on the faculty of Yale University,
has been involved with KentMusic since its founding in 1989. The
author of numerous articles, Professor Clampitt is a recent
recipient of the Emerging Scholar Award of the Society for Music
Theory, the Thomas Clipton Award, and a Morse Fellowship. He has lectured throughout the United
States, in Montreal, Bucharest, Paris, Budapest, and Leipzig. A
founding member of the Algonquin String Quartet, he is an active chamber and orchestral musician. |