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The Brentano String Quartet:

Mark Steinberg, violin
Serena Canin, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Nina Lee, cello

with Yekwon Sunwoo, piano

"Perfection may be an impossible goal in art, as in life, but the Brentano comes close….The performance was supple and sweeping…a collaboration of intense cohesion, which allowed the music to soar and sing as if it were being performed for the first time." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

For this concert, the quartet is joined by pianist Yekwon Sunwoo for the Dvorak Quintet. The five artists performed this work at the 2017 Cliburn Piano Competition, in which Yekwon Sunwoo won the Gold Medal. Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. "Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding," raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its "luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism." Since 2014, the Brentano Quartet has served as Artists in Residence at Yale University. The Quartet also currently serves as the collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Formerly, they were Artists in Residence at Princeton University for many years.

This performace is scheduled to showcase pieces by Beethoven and Dvorak.