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Carlsen Center Event: Takács Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin, piano
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| Takács Quartet with with Marc-André Hamelin, pianist: violinists Edward Dusinberre and Károly Schranz, violinist Geraldine Walther and cellist András |
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Hamelin Adds Piano to String Quartet
Recognized as one of the world’s premier string quartets, the Takács Quartet performs with the French-Canadian piano virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin in a program featuring the Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44 at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 18, in Yardley Hall of the Carlsen Center, Johnson County Community College.
Also on the program are Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 77, No. 2 and Bartok’s String Quartet, No. 1 in A minor.
The talented Takács (pronounced TA-kash) are violinists Edward Dusinberre and Károly Schranz, violist Geraldine Walther and cellist András Fejér. The inherent relationship of the violin, viola and cello and the ongoing bond of these musicians make their performances both deeply moving and vigorously passionate.
The Takács Quartet was formed by Gabor Takács-Nagy, Gabor Ormai, Schranz and Fejér in 1975, while all four were students at Budapest’s Liszt Academy. Now based in Boulder, Colo., the quartet has held a residency at the University of Colorado since 1983. They are also a Visiting Quartet at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.
The quartet is known for its innovative programming, collaborating regularly with the Hungarian folk ensemble Muzsikas in a program that explores the folk sources of Bartok's music. The Takács performed a music and poetry program on a 14-city U.S. tour with the poet Robert Pinsky, and in October 2007, Takács played a Carnegie Hall concert called Everyman, based on the Philip Roth novel with the Academy-Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Takács Quartet performs 80 concerts a year worldwide including two previous Yardley Hall concerts in April 2005 and October 2006.
The Quartet's multi-award winning recordings include the Late Quartets by Beethoven, which in 2005 won Disc of the Year and Chamber Award from BBC Music Magazine, a Gramophone Award and a Japanese Record Academy Award. Their recordings of the early and middle Beethoven quartets collected a Grammy, another Gramophone Award, Chamber Music of America Award and two awards from the Japanese Recording Academy.
Since signing with Hyperion in 2005, Takács has released a recording of Brahms String Quartet and Piano Quintet with Stephen Hough, piano, and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.
Takács and Hamelin will be recording the Schumann Piano Quintet in May. Hamelin, who won the 2008 Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble, is a classical pianist known for his adventurous repertoire and as a composer.
In 1985, he won the Carnegie Hall International Competition of American Music. Since then he has had a flourishing international career although he did not receive wide recognition in the United States until recently. He had his New York Philharmonic debut in 2005 and played with the Kansas City Symphony in 2007.
Takács tickets are $25, and $35, available calling the Carlsen Center box office at 913-469-4445 or online at www.jccc.edu/CarlsenCenter.
