January 30, 2011
Sunday at 4:00 pm (pre-concert talk begins at 3:30)

Attacca Quartet

Amy Schroeder & Keiko Tokunaga, violin
Luke Fleming, viola
Andrew Yee, cello


PROGRAM TBA

Winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006 and one of nine quartets selected to compete in the semi-finals of the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles. Comprised of violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming, and cellist Andrew Yee, the Attacca Quartet was formed at the Juilliard School in 2003. They gave their debut recital in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.

One of three string quartets chosen worldwide to participate in the Pacific Music Festival's 2006 String Quartet Course in Sapporo, Japan, the Attacca Quartet were also resident artists at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2007, working closely with the Tokyo and Vermeer Quartets. The Attaccas performed in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall as a part of the Juilliard Young Artists and Their Mentors Series, sharing a program with the Juilliard String Quartet. They further represented Juilliard in the Guarneri String Quartet's 40th Anniversary master class and in the John F. Kennedy Center Conservatory Project concert series. They have also distinguished themselves in seminars and master classes with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Miró, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence string quartets. The resident quartet at the 2005 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, and participants in the International Program for Advanced String Quartets at the Music@Menlo Festival in the summer of 2005, the Attaccas have collaborated with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Claude Frank, violinist Arnold Steinhardt, and the Tokyo String Quartet. They have also participated in the Emerson String Quartet's International String Quartet Seminar at Stony Brook University.

The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the 2006 Animato Summer Music Camp at Florida International University in Miami. They devoted a week in 2006 to outreach concerts for all ages in Hickory, North Carolina in a partnership with the Western Piedmont Symphony, and have participated in similar projects as featured ensemble with both the Amherst Symphony Orchestra in Buffalo, NY, and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Festival in South Carolina. In 2008, the Attaccas taught and coached chamber music as resident string quartet at Hunter College in Manhattan, also teaching alongside the Tokyo String Quartet at the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. In 2009, the Attacca Quartet was the string quartet in residence for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.

Comprised entirely of Juilliard graduates, the members of the Attacca Quartet currently reside in New York City. They consider among their mentors the members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence Quartets.


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