Cassatt String Quartet Concert at Bethany Arts Community
Cassatt String Quartet Concert
Date & Time: Saturday, November 9, 2024 | Doors at 5PM | Concert Starts at 5:30PM
Tickets: Adult – $25 | Student/Senior – $20
Join Bethany Arts Community and Cassatt String Quartet in commemorating Veterans’ Day with this special concert program.
On Saturday November 9 at 5:30PM the award-winning Cassatt String Quartet returns to Bethany Arts Community in Ossining, NY. The quartet includes longtime Ossining resident, violinist Jennifer Leshnower.
Concert Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 458, “The Hunt”
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142
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About the Cassatt String Quartet
Hailed for its “mighty rapport and relentless commitment” and for its active role in diversifying string quartet repertoire, the Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for four decades, with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Tanglewood Music Center, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Centro National de las Artes (Mexico), Maeda Hall (Japan), and Beijing’s Central Conservatory.
The Cassatt String Quartet celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024-2025 with premieres by Joan Tower, Victoria Bond, Mari Kimura and Shirish Korde, all written for the group. The season includes a tour of Italy with guitarist Eliot Fisk, concerts across the United States, residencies at major universities and conservatories, the CSQ’s bi-annual Cassatt in the Basin residency in West Texas, and the Seal Bay Festival in Maine.
The quartet’s discography of over 40 titles includes music by Steven Stucky, Daniel S. Godfrey, Gerald Cohen, Sebastian Currier, and Samuel Adler with albums on Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik, and Albany labels. Cassatt’s concerts have been broadcast nationally on the public radio program Performance Today, CBC Radio, and Radio France, and regionally on WGBH in Boston and WQXR and WNYC in New York. Its recordings have been featured numerous times in The New Yorker’s “10 Best Classical Recordings.”
The Cassatt String Quartet is violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower, violist Emily Brandenburg, and cellist Gwen Krosnick. The quartet is named for the celebrated American artist Mary Cassatt.
Learn more about Cassatt String Quartet here!