The Fred Sherry String Quartet is an American classical

string quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinist ...

Biography and career

The quartet was founded by cellist

Fred Sherry Fred Sherry (born 1948) is an American cellist who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Audition ...

to perform and record the four string quartets of

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

. He appears on all recordings by the quartet. The other members of the quartet have varied over time. They have included: *

Jennifer Frautschi Jennifer Frautschi (; born 1973) is an American violinist. A recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she is currently Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. She plays a 1722 Antonio Stradivari violin known as the " ex-Cadiz," on loan f ...

(violin), Jesse Mills (violin) and Richard O'Neill (viola) in the Concerto for String Quartet (recorded, 2002) *

Ida Kavafian Ida Kavafian ( hy, Այտա Գավաֆեան) (born October 29, 1952 in Istanbul) is an American classical violinist and violist. Biography Kavafian was born in Turkey to Armenian parents. She moved with her family to America in 1956, and began ...

(violin), Erin Keefe (violin) and

Paul Neubauer Paul Neubauer (born in Encino, California, in 1962) is an American violist. Neubauer was a student of Paul Doktor, Alan de Veritch and William Primrose. In August 1980, aged 17, he won the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and Workshop ...

(viola) in String Quartet No. 2 (recorded, 2005) *

(violin), Jesse Mills (violin) and Richard O'Neill (viola) in String Quartet No. 3 (recorded, 2007) *

Leila Josefowicz Leila Bronia Josefowicz ( ; born October 20, 1977) is an American-Canadian classical violinist. Biography Josefowicz was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sta ...

(violin), Jesse Mills (violin) and Paul Neubauer (viola) in String Quartet No. 4 (recorded, 2009) *Leila Josefowicz (violin), Jesse Mills (violin) and Hsin-Yun Huang (viola) in String Quartet No. 1 (recorded, 2012) Mr. Sherry also formed a string sextet consisting of Leila Josefowicz and

David Chan David Chan is an American violinist, conductor, and a concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He is one of the most sought-after violinists of his generation. He is a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the ...

(violins), Paul Neubauer and Yura Lee (violas) and himself and Michael Nicolas (cellos) for the recording of Schoenberg's '' Verklärte Nacht''. The Fred Sherry String Quartet has also recorded Schoenberg's '' Concerto for String Quartet'' and the ''Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for Voice, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 41'' as well as

Anton Webern Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (3 December 188315 September 1945), better known as Anton Webern (), was an Austrian composer and conductor whose music was among the most radical of its milieu in its sheer concision, even aphorism, and ste ...

's '' String Quartet, Op. 28'' and ''6 Bagatelles, Op. 9''.

Recordings

*Schoenberg: ''Concerto for String Quartet / Das Buch der hangenden Garten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens)'' Naxos 8.557520 (2004) *Schoenberg: ''6 A Cappella Choruses / String Quartet No. 2 / Suite in G Major'' Naxos 8.557521 (2005) *Schoenberg: ''Violin Concerto / Ode to Napoleon / A Survivor from Warsaw'' Naxos 8.557528 (2008) *Schoenberg: ''String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4 / Phantasy'' Naxos 8.557533 (2010) *Schoenberg: ''String Quartet No. 1 / Verklärte Nacht'' Naxos 8.557534 (2013) *Webern: ''Vocal and Chamber Works'' Naxos 8.557516 (2015)

External links

Fred Sherry's web site

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