Fortas Chamber Music Concerts: Takács Quartet

Takács Quartet and Fortas Chamber Music Concerts

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)

Terrace Theater at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, United States

$57.50

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Benjamin Britten — String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135

Celebrating its 50th season, Takács Quartet has cemented itself as a Fortas series favorite! The Grammy Award–winning ensemble is acclaimed for its innovative programming, virtuosic performances, and extensive, award-winning discography. Imbuing fervor and fresh insight into each piece, the quartet presents moving interpretations of works in a way that The Guardian proclaims, "Classical music doesn't get much more life-enhancing than this."

About Takács Quartet

Internationally respected for their innovative programming, the Takács Quartet has collaborated throughout their career with a fascinating variety of talents, including the bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro, actors Meryl Streep and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The members of the Takács Quartet are Hyperion recording artists and Christoffersen Fellows in Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally founded in 1975 at the Music Academy in Budapest, the members of Takács Quartet—Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello)—are currently based out of North America but tour and perform almost continually around the world. Over the past year, the quartet could be heard in Berlin, Geneva, Linz, Innsbruck, Cambridge, New Zealand, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and, now, at the University of Maryland.

http://www.takacsquartet.com/