Friend of Chamber Music: Takács Quartet

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

Clearly an audience favorite, the Takács Quartet has appeared on our stage more than any other ensemble in FOCM's history — but until now, never with a bandoneon player! Julien Labro joins the Takács Quartet on Monday for an innovative program for string quartet and bandoneon, while Tuesday's program will feature only string quartets.

"Classical music doesn't get much more life-enhancing than this." The Guardian

Performances on Oct. 28 & 29.

About Friends of Chamber Music – Portland

https://focm.org

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 Julien Labro, bandoneon

https://julienlabro.com/

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