Leipzig String Quartet performs at UIA

NEW YORK - Members of the Leipzig String Quartet - Andreas Seidel and Tilman Büning, violins, Matthias Moosdorf, cello, and Ivo Bauer, viola - in performance on March 9 at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York in a program of works by Mendelssohn, Berg, and Beethoven. Since its founding in 1988, the quartet, acclaimed as "one of the towering and most versatile quartets of our time" (Neue Züricher Zeitung), has won numerous prizes and awards, including the 1991 international ARD Munich competition and the Busch and Siemens prizes. Often offering its own thematic cycles (Schubert, Bach, the contemporaries), the quartet was one of the initiators of the 1996 and 1997 Beethoven Quartet Cycle offered in more than 15 European music centers. Since 1991 the ensemble has had its own concert series, "Pro Quatuour," at the Gewandhaus, where it currently offers a multi-year cycle of the major quartets of the First and Second Viennese Schools. As a member of the Leipzig Ensemble Avantgard, the quartet formed the "musica nova" series at the Gewandhaus and was awarded the 1993 Schneider-Schott prize of the city of Mainz. The quartet's more than 30 recordings, spanning Mozart to Cage and including the complete works of Dessau, Adorno, Eisler, Kaminski and Webern, have met with international critical acclaim.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April 21, 2002, No. 16, Vol. LXX

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