Juilliard String Quartet to Perform in Cooperstown 8/28

The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival presents the Juilliard String Quartet on Sunday, August 28 at 3 pm at The Farmers' Museum. Earlier this year the Recording Academy® presented the JSQ with a Lifetime Achievement Award. They are the first classical ensemble to be honored in this way. The members of the Juilliard String Quartet are: violinist Joseph Lin, who joined the quartet this year, violinist Ronald Copes (quartet member since 1997), violist Samuel Rhodes (1969), and cellist Joel Krosnick (1974).

The program features Haydn's Quartet in G, Beethoven's Quartet in B-flat, with Grosse Fuge, and Quartet No. 5 by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Donald Martino. Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick says of Martino: "His music is at once highly introspective, fiercely brilliant, and passionately lyrical. There is very much to listen to and be moved by in his music."
Since its inception in 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet has consistently realized the credo stated by founders Robert Mann and William Schuman to "play new works as if they were established masterpieces, and established masterpieces as if they were new." It is a matter, as Quartet violist Samuel Rhodes describes the JSQ, "of having iron-bound conviction, with flexibility."

During the course of its history, the JSQ has performed some 500 works, including the premieres of more than 60 pieces by American composers. With more than 100 releases to its credit, the JSQ is one of the most widely recorded string quartets of our time. Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences (The Recording Academy) in 1986 for its first recording of the complete Bartók quartets, the Juilliard String Quartet was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Prize in 1993 for Lifetime Achievement in the recording industry. In 2011, the Juilliard String Quartet became the first classical music ensemble to be honored by The Recording Academy with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tickets and Information
The Farmers' Museum, one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, is located at 5775 State Route 80, Cooperstown, NY. Festival concerts are held in the museum's Louis C. Jones Center, a renovatEd Stone barn known for its excellent acoustics.

Ticket prices, which have been reduced for 2011, are $25 for adults, $15 for students (6-18). Tickets can be ordered online, www.CooperstownMusicFest.org, or by calling the box office service Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006. Tickets will be sold at the door, as available.

To find out more about the season, go to www.CooperstownMusicFest.org, call the Festival at 877/666-7421, or email info@CooperstownMusicFest.org.

About Cooperstown and the Festival
Cooperstown is a popular summer destination as the home of the Glimmerglass Festival, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, The Farmers' Museum, and Fenimore Art Museum. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, under the leadership of artistic director Linda Chesis, has offered nearly 100 concerts since 1999. Festival artists have included Midori, the Toyko String Quartet, Mark O'Connor, Bill Charlap, and many more.
In addition to the Juilliard String Quartet, this season featured the American String Quartet, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Music from Copland House, oboist Keisuke Wakao, violist Marcus Thompson, violinist Alexander Velinzon, cellist Inbal Segev, flutist Linda Chesis and jazz with Kurt Elling and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem All Stars.

Ms. Chesis, a flutist, is chair of the Woodwind Department and a member of the flute faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.

August 28, 3 pm
The Juilliard String Quartet
Presented by the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival
The Farmers' Museum
5775 State Route 80, Cooperstown, NY.
The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival finale features the Juilliard String Quartet performing works by Haydn, Martino and Beethoven. Earlier this year, the Grammy®-winning JSQ became the first classical ensemble to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Adults, $25, Students, $15 Tickets can be ordered online, www.CooperstownMusicFest.org, or by calling the box office service Brown Paper Tickets, 800/838-3006. Tickets will be sold at the door, as available.