Its members hail from the legendary Juilliard School of New York. Since 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet has maintained an uninterrupted presence in the international concert and recording scene, enjoying worldwide acclaim and numerous distinctions.
In their highly anticipated appearance in Athens, they perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, a profound late masterpiece by the great German classical composer and a landmark work in the chamber music repertoire. The programme also includes Nikos Skalkottas’s String Quartet No. 1, his first contribution to the string quartet repertoire, written during his studies in Berlin with Arnold Schoenberg.
Special mention should be made of the five-movement quartet Birds on the Moon, composed by Grammy Award-winning composer and violinist Michelle Barzel Ross at the request of Chamber Music in Napa Valley for the Quartet, in memory of their recently deceased member, Roger Tapping. Recognised and consistently supported by Itzhak Perlman, Ross conceived the work to be performed in a programme culminating in Beethoven’s five-movement String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132.
