Fortas Chamber Music: Takács Quartet

• Edward Dusinberre, violin
• Harumi Rhodes, violin
• Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola
• András Fejér, cello

This titan of string ensembles is back to astound Kennedy Center audiences once again. Entering its 49th season, Takács Quartet infuses deep richness and fresh insight into each performance, cultivating a "warmth to their sound" (The Washington Post) that makes every concert a treasure. The ensemble will present Haydn’s virtuosic "Sunrise," one of Bartók's transcendent quartets—a return to the Takács' Hungarian roots—and Schubert's mysterious final string quartet.

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.

About Fortas Chamber Music Concerts

https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/festivals-series/fortas-series-page/

About Edward Dusinberre, violin

https://www.colorado.edu/music/edward-dusinberre

About Harumi Rhodes, violin

https://www.colorado.edu/music/harumi-rhodes

About Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola

https://www.richard-oneill.com/

About András Fejér, cello

https://www.colorado.edu/music/andras-fejer