Amy Schroeder, violin
Keiko Tokunaga, violin
Gillian Gallagher, viola
Andrew Yee, cello
Formed in 2003 at the Juilliard School, the Attacca Quartet was recently awarded the Grand Prize at the 2006 Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Pasadena, California, and was one of three quartets chosen internationally to participate in the Pacific Music Festival’s 2006 String Quartet Course in Sapporo, Japan. Currently studying at Juilliard with Joel Smirnoff and Samuel Rhodes, the quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with the Juilliard String Quartet, and participated in the 2005 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, and the 2005 Music@Menlo Festival outside San Francisco.
Performance schedule
Recital Round — Tuesday, August 28, 7:30 p.m.
Haydn Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 “Sunrise”
Bartók Quartet No. 4
Romantic Round — Thursday, August 30, 10:30 a.m.
Debussy Quartet in G Minor, No. 10
Canadian Commission Round — Friday, August 31, 10:30 a.m.
Kelly-Marrie Murphy Dark Energy
Beethoven or Schubert Round — Saturday, September 1, 2:30 p.m.
Beethoven Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”