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Takács String Quartet

Edward Dusinberre, violin; Károly Schranz, violin;
Roger Tapping, viola and András Fejér, cello.

Takács String Quartet: Recognized as one of the world’s premiere string quartets, the Takács Quartet plays with a virtuosic technique, intense immediacy and consistently burnished tone. The ensemble explores its repertoire with intellectual curiosity and passion, creating performances that are probing, revealing and constantly engaging. The Quartet has been described as having “warmth, exuberance, buoyancy, a teasing subtlety, unanimity of purpose without compromising the individual personalities of each performer, a blossoming tone, and above all the instinct to play from inside the music…” The Takács Quartet is based in Boulder, Colorado, where it has been in residence at the University of Colorado since 1983.

Now entering its thirtieth season, the Takács Quartet has performed repertoire ranging from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert to Bartok, Britten, Dutilleux, Janacek and Sheng in virtually every music capital in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, as well as at prestigious festivals, including Aspen, Berlin, Cheltenham, City of London, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Salzburg, Schleswig Holstein and Tanglewood. The ensemble is also known for its award-winning recordings on the Decca label, including its 2-CD set of Beethoven’s three “Rasumovsky” String Quartets, Op. 59 and Quartet in E –flat Major, Op. 74, “Harp”, which won the Grammy Award and the Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Performance in 2002. The album is the first installment of the Takács Quartet’s recordings of the complete Beethoven Quartet cycle in three sets, the second of which (the Early Quartets, Op. 19) was released in January 2004. The Quartet’s third and final CD of the late quartets plus Op. 95 and the Grosse Fugue, which completes the cycle, is scheduled for release in 2005. Of their performances and recordings of these Quartets, the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote “The Takács might play this repertoire better than any quartet of the past or present.” Their website is at: www.cramermarderartists.com/takacs_quartet.htm


Alan Chow - piano

M.Mus., Juilliard School First prize, Concert Artists Guild Competition; grand prize, Palm Beach International Piano Competition; silver medal and audience favorite prize, Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Soloist with Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony, Utah Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Tulsa Philharmonic, and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras. Recitals in New York’s Alice Tully Hall and throughout the United States; concert tours of Hong Kong, Japan, China, and Taiwan. Former artist-in-residence, University of Arkansas. Studied with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University, Sascha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School, and Nelita True at the University of Maryland.


Parry Karp - cello

Parry is a professor of Music, Artist-in-Residence, and director of the string chamber music program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music. Mr. Karp received his early training in Vienna, Austria and continued his studies with Peter Farrel in Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois as a scholarship student of Gabriel Magyar.

He was invited to become a member of the Pro Arte Quartet in 1976 and was awarded the Kate Neal Kinley fellowship for excellence in the arts and won the National String Artist Competition in 1977. Parry Karp frequently performs solo recitals in the United States and Canada and has performed as soloist with the San Salvador Symphony and many symphony orchestras in the United States, including the Chicago Civic Symphony. Mr. Karp has performed as soloist or chamber musician in 21 countries throughout the globe.
During his tenure with the Pro Arte Quartet he has recorded 10 records and 5 CDs. As a solo recording artist, he has performed Miklos Rosza's Rhapsody for cello and piano with pianist Howard Karp and recently completed a CD recording of Ernest Bloch's cello music with pianist Frances Karp for Laurel Record. Active in presenting new music, Mr. Karp has performed in the premieres of 19 new works and recently gave the second performance of John Harbison's new Cello Concerto with the UW Symphony Orchestra. This past year he performed at the International Enescu Festival, Yehudi Menuhin–director.

 

Junior Artist Seminar: Master Class Faculty

Mia Kim Hynes - piano

A native of Bloomington Indiana, Mia Hynes has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, including appearances at the Aspen and Chautauqua festivals, the Library of Congress, and the Dag Hammerskjold Library at the United Nations. Dr. Hynes has performed live on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" with Scott Yoo, violinist and conductor of the Metamorphosen Chamber Ensemble, and frequently makes recital appearances with members of the Kansas City Symphony. She and Mr. Yoo premiered works by composers Donald Sur ("Berceuse" - 1999) and Paul Barsom ("House Made of Dawn" - 1996).

A winner of numerous competitions, Dr. Hynes garnered first prize in the 1995 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Auditions, and was nominated in both 1995 and 1996 for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award at the Eastman School of Music. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature

Dr. Mia Hynes
degree from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with (andserved as teaching assistant to) Nelita True. Dr. Hynes also holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University where she was a student of Menahem Pressler, and served on the teaching staff of the Young Pianists Program.

Dr. Hynes has served on the faculty of Central Missouri State University since fall of 1996, where she is currently Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy, and Director of the Music Preparatory Department. She conducted the Warrensburg Area Youth Symphony from 1997-2002. Dr. Hynes also serves as the piano division chair of the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Auditions, and current president of the Missouri Federation of Music Clubs.

 

 


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