Cassatt String Quartet at Westside Community Garden
Free
- Muneko Otani, violin
- Jennifer Leshnower, violin
- Rosemary Nelis, viola
- Gwen Krosnick, cello
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 1 in G major
Daniel Strong Godfrey / Traditional — Amazing Grace (from Three Encores for String Quartet)
In this free, outdoor concert, the world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet performs an early Beethoven quartet, Florence Price's String Quartet No. 1, and an arrangement of Amazing Grace by Daniel Strong Godfrey at beautiful the West Side Community Garden. (Program subject to change)
About Cassatt String Quartet
Hailed for its "mighty rapport and relentless commitment," the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for nearly four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing's Central Conservatory. The Quartet's prolific discography—featured three times in Alex Ross's "10 Best Classical Recordings" column in The New Yorker—includes over forty recordings, for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels.
The Cassatt Quartet's 2023-2024 season has included major performances and recordings of works by Tania León, Victoria Bond, Adolphus Hailstork, Chen Yi, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, and Daniel S. Godfrey; their annual residencies at the Seal Bay Festival and Cassatt in the Basin!; hometown concerts in the New York area, including at Symphony Space and Bargemusic; and appearances at Treetops Chamber Music Society, Maverick Concerts, and Music Mountain.
The CSQ is named for the great Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.
https://www.cassattquartet.com/