Master Class with the Jerusalem Quartet

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

MASTER CLASS WITH THE JERUSALEM QUARTET Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

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MASTER CLASS WITH THE JERUSALEM QUARTET Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960)

(1906-1975)

ARLENE CHUNG, CINDY CHEN, VIOLIN; LAURA SACKS, VIOLA; CECELIA KIM, CELLO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, STEINHARDT SCHOOL

BEDŘICH SMETANA (1824-1884)

String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life” (1876) DEBORAH SONG, CHELSEA SMITH, VIOLIN; MARIA SEMES, VIOLA; PHILO LEE, CELLO THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

The Jerusalem Quartet performs the complete quartets of Shostakovich at Alice Tully Hall in four concerts.

Learn more at www.ShostakovichQuartets.com

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about the

JERUSALEM QUARTET

The Jerusalem Quartet, hailed by The Strad as “one of the young, yet great quartets of our time,” has garnered international acclaim for its rare combination of passion and precision. The ensemble has won audiences the world over, both in concert and on its recordings for the Harmonia Mundi label.

The quartet performs regularly in Europe, with recent appearances at venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Cité de la Musique in Paris, as well as venues in cities including Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Lucerne, Dortmund, Perugia, Genoa, Siena, and Le Mans. They recently concluded a three-year residency at Musica Viva Australia with a 10-concert tour that included Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane.

The Jerusalem Quartet is a record threetime recipient of BBC Music Magazine’s Chamber Music Award, most recently for its CD of Mozart quartets (2012), as well as for recordings of Haydn (2010) and Shostakovich (2007). The quartet’s

recording of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Quartettsatz in C minor was featured as Editor’s Choice in the July 2008 edition of Gramophone, and was also awarded an ECHO Classic chamber music award in 2009. The quartet records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi.

In November 2007, the quartet was awarded first prize in the “most impressive performance by a (small) ensemble” category of the Netherlands’ Vereniging van Schouwburgen en Concertgebouwdirecties.

In 2003, they received the first BorlettiBuitoni Trust Award, and were part of the first ever BBC New Generation Artists program between 1999 and 2001.

The Jerusalem Quartet formed while its members were students at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance. They quickly found a shared commitment to the music that has not only endured, but has propelled them to the highest level of performance. Ori Kam joined the group in 2011, upon the departure of founding violist Amihai Grosz. The quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists.