Tokyo Quartet, Peter Oundjian receive Sanford Medals
At the Tokyo String Quartet‘s performance last night, Dean Robert Blocker awarded the Sanford Medal to current and past members of the quartet. The medal, which is the highest honor that the Yale School of Music bestows, is awarded for distinguished service to music. Blocker presented the medal to the four current members of the [...]
Tokyo String Quartet performs in Morse Recital Hall for the last time Jan. 22
Concert features string quartets by Haydn, Bartók, Mendelssohn The Yale School of Music presents a concert featuring the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, January 22. It will be the group’s last performance on the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at the Yale School of Music; this is the ensemble’s last season before retirement. In this valedictory performance, [...]
Recent press about the YSM community
In the Financial Times, Harry Eyres praised a concert he’d heard this past summer at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival: ”Two of my musical highlights this year were dark, rich confrontations with mortality as interpreted by artists bringing all their life-experience to bear on music of almost unbearable poignancy.” One of these [...]
NYC-ARTS on Channel 13 spotlights the Yale in New York series Oct. 18
NYC-ARTS, television’s weekly primetime arts and culture showcase for the tri-state area, spotlights the Yale in New York series tonight (October 18, 2012) at 8 pm. The segment will focus on the opening concert of the 2012–2013 season, which features the Tokyo String Quartet alongside faculty colleague Ettore Causa, viola, and YSM alumni the Jasper [...]
Tokyo String Quartet performs with Ettore Causa and Jasper Quartet Oct. 2
Program includes music by Webern, Mozart, Mendelssohn The Yale School of Music presents a concert featuring the Tokyo String Quartet and friends on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. The concert marks the opening not only of the 2012–2013 Oneppo Chamber Music Series but also the beginning of the Tokyo Quartet’s last season before retirement. The quartet, along with guest [...]
Tokyo String Quartet to retire from international concert stage after 2012–2013 season
The Tokyo String Quartet announced today that the concert season 2012–2013 will be its last. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles, the quartet was founded in 1969 and joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music as Artists-in-Residence in 1977. The Tokyo Quartet – Martin Beaver, violin; Kikuei Ikeda, violin; Kazuhide [...]
New semester opens with Tokyo String Quartet performance
January 10 concert features quartets of Haydn, Bartók, Dvorák The Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet in concert on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The ensemble, now celebrating its thirty-fifth year in residence at the Yale School of Music, will perform quartets by Haydn, Bartók, and Dvorák. The concert begins at 8 pm [...]
Tokyo String Quartet looks to future
Dean Robert Blocker announced this morning that violist Kazuhide Isomura and second violinist Kikuei Ikeda will retire from the Tokyo String Quartet in June, 2013. One of the world’s most distinguished chamber music ensembles, the Tokyo String Quartet was founded in 1969 and has been the quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music and the [...]
Tokyo String Quartet premieres Jeffrey Ryan’s “Inspirare” Sep. 20
Quartet celebrates 35 years in residence at Yale School of Music, opens season for chamber music series The chamber music series at the Yale School of Music opens its 2011–2012 season with the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, September 20 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall. The concert will feature the U.S. premiere of [...]
VIDEO: Preview of Tokyo String Quartet’s benefit concert for Japan
Monday’s benefit concert for Japan marks the one-month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami. Aftershocks continue to hit the country, which is still struggling to recover four weeks after the initial devastation. Watch a new video featuring violinist Kikuei Ikeda talking about the quartet’s decision to give this concert, as well as footage of the [...]
Tokyo String Quartet and guests give a benefit concert for Japan April 11
The Yale School of Music presents the distinguished Tokyo String Quartet and guest artists in a special benefit concert for Japan earthquake relief on Monday, April 11 at 8 pm in Battell Chapel (corner of College and Elm Streets, New Haven). The Tokyo Quartet, currently celebrating its fortieth season as one of the world’s foremost [...]
Tokyo String Quartet performs with violist Ettore Causa Feb. 8
Program includes Mozart and Szymanowski quartets, plus Mendelssohn quintet with violist Ettore Causa The Chamber Music Society at the Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet on Tuesday, February 8 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall at 470 College Street, New Haven). The concert will open with Mozart’s [...]
Tokyo String Quartet opens 2010-11 Chamber Music Society season Sep. 28 with Schubert, Webern, and Mozart
Guest artist Ettore Causa appears in Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C major The Yale School of Music presents the Tokyo String Quartet in the first concert of the Chamber Music Society season on Tuesday, September 28 at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall (located in Sprague Hall, 470 College Street, New Haven). The Tokyo String [...]
Tokyo String Quartet in Chamber Music Society’s first concert of the New Year
January 26 program includes music of Haydn, Barber, and Beethoven The Tokyo String Quartet, one of today’s foremost chamber ensembles, will perform at the Yale School of Music on Tuesday, January 26 at 8 pm. The quartet has been in residence at the School of Music for the past 33 years and appears in recital [...]
Tokyo String Quartet to perform Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartok
The Tokyo String Quartet, one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, will perform three powerhouse works on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 8 pm. Artists in residence at the Yale School of Music for the past 33 years, the quartet appears in recital every semester. Their performance this October will open with Haydn’s Quartet in [...]
Tokyo String Quartet returns to New Haven
Program will feature works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Janáček The award-winning Tokyo String Quartet will perform on Yale’s 2008-09 Chamber Music Society series on Tuesday, January 20. 2009 at 8:00 pm in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall. Regarded as one of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the Tokyo String Quartet has captivated [...]
