Beethoven String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 No. 4

Cooperstown Quartet
Hye-Jin Kim & Ara Gregorian, violins
Maria Lambros, viola
Michael Kannen, cello

LIVE at the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival - February 5, 2016

I. Allegro ma non tanto
II. Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto (9:35)
III. Menuetto: Allegretto (15:42)
IV. Allegro: Prestissimo (20:00)

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The Cooperstown Quartet brings together four of the chamber music world’s most exciting and experienced performers. Its members- violinists Ara Gregorian and Hye-Jin Kim, violist Maria Lambros and cellist Michael Kannen- are former members of some of this country’s most respected ensembles: the Brentano, Daedalus, Mendelssohn and Ridge string quartets as well as the string sextet, Concertante. Having played together for years, they now make it official.

These musicians have performed in the world’s most prestigious chamber music venues, including New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully halls, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Vienna’s Konzerthaus; won international competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin International and Concert Artists Guild International competitions; performed throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and North America; and are veterans of the Four Seasons, Marlboro, Santa Fe, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest and Prussia Cove chamber music festivals. In addition to their extensive music-making careers, they are all dedicated teachers, with appointments at the Peabody Conservatory and East Carolina University. In short, four consummate musicians come together to form one dynamic and brilliant string quartet.