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.