Attacca Quartet

Thursday, March 7, 7:30 p.m.

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“We’re living in a golden age of string quartets. … It’s hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York’s Attacca Quartet.” — NPR

Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet, in the words of The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past.” And it’s the musicians’ ability to glide with dexterity from the music of the eighteenth through to the twenty-first century that places the New York based chamber group as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment – a quartet for modern times.

Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the quartet is dedicated to presenting and recording new works. The quartet’s recent recorded work includes Evergreen (Nonesuch Records), a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Becca Stevens | Attacca Quartet (GroundUP Music), with the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, and Of All Joys (Sony Classical), a genre-busting, powerful musical journey that folds late twentieth century minimalism back onto the music of the Renaissance.

The program for this event will include works by Shaw, German cellist and composer Anne Müller, and DJ/electronica artist Flying Lotus, along with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8, Op. 110.