Cassatt String Quartet – Past Concerts
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.
Cassatt String Quartet: 125th Anniversary Celebration of Duke Ellington
Shirish Korde — Moods of Ellington (Portland, ME premiere)
Traditional — Amazing Grace
$29 ($12 child/student)
Cassatt String Quartet at Westside Community Garden
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 1 in G major
Daniel Strong Godfrey / Traditional — Amazing Grace (from Three Encores for String Quartet)
Free
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival presents the Cassatt String Quartet & Pianist Ursula Oppens
Tania León — Ethos
Wang Jie — Song for Mahler in the Absence of Words
Joan Tower — Dumbarton Quintet
$30
Here & Now Series: Zhou Long, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Allen Shawn / Cassatt Quartet with Doris Stevenson
Dorothy Rudd Moore — Modes
Allen Shawn — Piano Quintet (world premiere)
$35
West & East: Beethoven to Zhou Long with the Cassatt Quartet & Magdalena Baczewska
Zhou Long — Song of the Ch'in
Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57
Free
Cassatt String Quartet with trombonist Haim Avistur
Victoria Bond — Blue and Green Music
Joan Tower — Elegy for Trombone and String Quartet
Adolphus Hailstork — Monuments (version for trombone & string quartet)
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel — String Quartet in E-flat major
$18 (students free)
Cassatt String Quartet at Bethany Arts Community
Victoria Bond — Blue and Green Music
Adolphus Hailstork — Monuments (version for trombone & string quartet)
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
$20
Cassatt String Quartet: World Premiere by Adolphus Hailstork
Ludwig van Beethoven — Selected works
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel — Selected works
Adolphus Hailstork — Monuments (world premiere of version for trombone & string quartet)
Daniela Candillari — Selected works
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh — Selected works
Free
Eliot Fisk with Cassatt String Quartet
Anthony Paul De Ritis — Passion's Continuum (world premiere)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Guitar Concerto, W. 501 (cadenza)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Prelude No. 5 "Homenagem à vida social" ("Homage to Social Life")
Daniel Strong Godfrey — Toward Light: Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet
Free
Cassatt String Quartet at Bethany Arts Community
Dorothy Rudd Moore — Modes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, "Prussian"
$30 ($25 senior, $10 student)
American women play American women – Cassatt Quartet with Magdalena Baczewska, piano
Florence Price — Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E minor
Dorothy Rudd Moore — Modes
Amy Beach — Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
Free (RSVP recommended)
Cassatt String Quartet at Soapbox Gallery
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 1 in G major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K. 590, "Prussian"
In person: $25 | Stream: pay-what-you-want from $10
Music Mountain Summer Festival: Cassatt String Quartet & Eliot Fisk, Guitar
Daniel Strong Godfrey — Toward Light: Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet (Connecticut premiere)
Joaquín Turina — La Oración del Torero ("The Toreador's Prayer"), Op. 34
Luigi Boccherini — Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D major, G. 448 "Fandango"
Hall: $45-$55 ($15 student; ages 18 & under free)
Lawn – audio only: $15 (ages 18 & under free)
BGFest XVII GALA Concert: "Toward the Light" – Cassatt String Quartet with guitarist Eliot Fisk
$40
Reaching for the Heavens: The Music of Composer Gerald Cohen
Gerald Cohen — Amid the Alien Corn (world premiere)
Gerald Cohen — Preludes and Debka
Gerald Cohen — Voyagers (Composed for the Cassatt String Quartet)
Online: $10 | In person: $20 ($10 JTS student/faculty/staff)
Cassatt String Quartet with Ursula Oppens, piano [LIVE]
Victoria Bond – Blue and Green Music
Amy Beach – Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67
Free ($20 suggested donation)