迈阿密弦乐四重奏

Part of the Heartland Chamber Music Festival.

迈阿密弦乐四重奏成员

• 本尼·金，小提琴
• 凯西·孟·罗宾逊，小提琴手
• 斯科特·李，中提琴
• 基思·罗宾逊，大提琴

Winners of the 2000 Cleveland Quartet Award presented by Chamber Music America, and Chamber Music Society Two ensemble of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1999-2001, the 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 has been in residence at Hugh A. Glauser 学校 of Music at Kent State University since 2004. They were Quartet in Residence at the Hartt 学校 in Hartford from 2003 to 2009. Other previous residencies include Florida International University and the New World 学校 of the Arts in Miami, where the group was founded in 1988.

The 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 has appeared extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Highlights of recent seasons include performances in New York at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and the 肯尼迪中心 in Washington, D.C., as well as engagements in Boston, 印第安纳波利斯, 洛杉矶, 新奥尔良, 旧金山, 西雅图, St. Paul and its own concert series in Palm Beach, Florida. International highlights include appearances in Bern, 科隆, 阿姆斯特丹Concertgebouw音乐厅, 伊斯坦布尔, 洛桑, 蒙特利尔, 里约热内卢, 香港, 台北, 和巴黎. The Quartet recently toured with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and they perform frequently for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

The 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 is in demand at many of the country’s great festivals. 多年来, the Quartet served as resident ensemble at the Kent Blossom Music Festival in Ohio, and appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, 主要是莫扎特, 拉维尼亚, 布里瓦德节, 罗格斯Summerfest, 《赌钱app可以微信提现》音乐, Virginia Arts Festival – where it has been the resident ensemble – and at the festivals of La Jolla, 圣达菲和彭萨科拉.

The ensemble’s interest in new music has led to many commissions and premieres. In 2009, the Quartet and the Kalischstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio premiered Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Septet,” a work co-commissioned by a dozen organizations, 包括第92街. Y, 肯尼迪中心, 底特律室内乐协会, Kravis中心, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Friends of Chamber Music (Portland), Chamber Arts Society of Durham and Denver Friends of Chamber Music. In 2008, they and the Imani Winds premiered Roberto Sierra’s Concierto da Camera, commissioned by Chamber Music Northwest, 斯坦福大学, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Also in 2008, the ensemble performed the premiere of Joan Tower’s Angels (String Quartet No. 4), commissioned by 《赌钱app可以微信提现》音乐, and premiered Ricky Ian Gordon’s Green Sneakers for baritone and string quartet, Bravo委任! 科罗拉多州的韦尔节. Other recent commissions include a new work by composer Annie Gosfield, commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; a joint commissioning by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Virginia Arts Festival of a piano quintet by Bruce Adolphe; and a new work by composer Stephen Jaffe commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.

In 2000, the 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 premiered Augusta Read Thomas’s Invocations. In the 1997-98 season, they presented the American premieres of Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 by Pēteris Vasks, which met with enormous acclaim and were subsequently recorded. 巴斯克斯第四重奏. 3 has since become a signature piece for the ensemble. Among other new music highlights are a commissioning grant from Chamber Music America for a piano quintet from Maurice Gardner, world premiere performances of the quartet Whispers of Mortality by Bruce Adolphe, 菲利普·马内瓦尔的四重奏, 莫里斯·加德纳第四重奏. 2 and Concertino as well as premieres of Robert Starer’s Quartet Nos. 2 and 3, and David Baker’s Summer Memories.

The 迈阿密弦乐四重奏’s first recording, the first two quartets of Alberto Ginastera, 于1994年发行. Their second CD, Saint-Saëns Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and Faure’s String Quartet, was released in the fall of 1997 on BMG Conifer. The 1999 BMG recording of Peteris 巴斯克斯第四重奏s. 1, 2 and 3 garnered unqualified praise on both sides of the Atlantic. Azica Records released their recording, with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, in 2014. Their recording of Joan Tower’s quartets Angels and Incandescent was released in 2016.

In 1992, the 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 became the first string quartet in a decade to win First Prize of the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition. The 迈阿密弦乐四重奏 has also won recognition in competitions throughout the world; as laureate of the 1993 Evian Competition, 1991 London String Quartet Competition, and as the 1989 Grand Prize Winner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.