VC ARTISTS | The Dover Quartet – ‘The Young American String Quartet of the Moment’
The Dover Quartet was recently dubbed by the New Yorker magazine as ‘the young American string quartet of the moment’
The Philadelphia-based Dover Quartet has firmly established themselves as one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles to emerge internationally in recent years.
Graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Rice University Shepherd School of Music, the Dovers are former top prize winners at the Fischoff, Wigmore Hall and Banff International String Quartet Competitions – and recent recipients of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Lincoln Center Hunt Family Prize and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Comprising violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violist Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt and cellist Camden Shaw, the Quartet was recently dubbed by the New Yorker as ‘the young American string quartet of the moment’ – with the Chicago Tribune suggesting they ‘have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet’.
The Dover currently perform in excess of 100 concerts per year internationally – and serve as Quartet-in-Residence for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Northwest, Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere, Peoples’ Symphony and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | MENDELSSOHN STRING QUARTET IN F MINOR OP. 80 | NORTHWESTERN BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | 2018
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET OP. 18 NO. 4 | 1ST MVT | BROOKLYN CLASSICAL | 2017
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BORODIN STRING QUARTET NO. 2 | 3RD MVT | BROOKLYN CLASSICAL | 2018
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET & MATT HAIMOVITZ | SCHUBERT STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR | 2ND MVT | 2016
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | SMETANA | STRING QUARTET NO. 1 'FROM MY LIFE' | 2017
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BARBER | 'ADAGIO FOR STRINGS' | 2015
VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BRAHMS | STRING QUARTET OP. 51 NO. 2 IN A MINOR | BANFF INTERNATIONAL STRING COMPETITION | 2013
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Name: Joel Link
Violin: 1856-1857 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume on loan by Desiree Ruhstrat
Bow: Charles Espey
Rosin: Bella Rosin
Shoulder Rest: Kun Original
Teachers: Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, Frank Huang, Roland Vamos
Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University
Website: www.doverquartet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheDoverQuartet
Name: Bryan Lee
Violin: 1904 Riccardo Antoniazzi
Bow: François Nicolas Voirin, Charles Espey, Cody Kowalski, Gilles Nehr
Accessories: Andrea Bang Rosin | Kun Bravo Shoulder Rest
Teachers: Pamela Frank, Victor Danchenko, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim, Frank Huang
Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University
Website: www.doverquartet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet
Name: Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt
Viola: 1780 Michele Deconet “the Kroyt”, generously on loan in memory of Boris Kroyt of the Budapest Quartet
Bow: David Samuels, Charles Espey, Francois Malo, John Dalley
Accessories: Sheriff Rosin
Teachers: Michael Tree, Roberto Diaz, Misha Amory, Joseph DePasquale, James Dunham, Michael Klotz, Sergiu Schwartz and Melissa Pierson Barrett
Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University
Website: www.doverquartet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet
Name: Camden Shaw
Cello: 2010 Frank Ravatin, 2010 Sam Zygmuntowicz
Bow: 2014 Elizabeth Van Der Veer Shaak
Accessories: Planetary Perfection Geared Pegs | Marvin Cable Tailpiece | Tone Acoustics “Grand Concerto” Endpin
Rosin: Pops Bass Rosin
Teachers: Toby Saks, Peter Wiley, Norman Fischer, David Finkel, Steven Isserlis
Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University | IMS Prussia Cove
Website: www.doverquartet.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet
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