The Takács Quartet
Subscriptions On Sale Now (Single Tickets On Sale Jul 28)Sat, Apr 17, 2027, 7:30 pm
Alice Tully Hall
2 hours, including intermission
The Grammy Award–winning Takács Quartet recently celebrated its 50th season, becoming one of only a handful of quartets in history to achieve that milestone. Long regarded as one of the world’s strongest ensembles, artistically and technically, the Takács Quartet brings to our stage a program that samples three vibrant eras of string quartet repertoire, from one of Mozart’s sublime late quartets, to Brahms’s first scintillating essay in the genre, to a recent work by the multi-dimensional musical personality Gabriela Lena Frank.
Cellist Mihai Marica will join the Takács Quartet beginning September 1, 2026.
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791)Quartet in F major for Strings, K. 590, "Prussian"
(1790)Gabriela Lena Frank
(b. 1972)Quijotadas for String Quartet
(2007)Johannes Brahms
(1833–1897)Quartet in C minor for Strings, Op. 51, No. 1
(1873)
Takács Quartet
In the 2026-2027 season the world-renowned Takács Quartet are excited to welcome new cellist Mihai Marica. The ensemble that comprises Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins) and Richard O’Neill (viola), are looking forward to varied projects that include a recording project of works by Gabriela Lena Frank and a tour of Cesar Franck’s piano quintet with Jeremy Denk. For Hyperion Records the Takács will release an album of two Mozart viola quintets with violist Timothy Ridout.
The Takács maintains a busy international touring schedule. As Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group will play four concerts that include performances with pianist Steven Osbourne and works by Haydn, Schubert, Carlos Simon, Gabriela Lena Frank, Mendelssohn and Brahms. During the season the ensemble will play at other prestigious European centers including the KonzerthausVienna, Oslo, Bergen and Utrecht.
The group’s North American engagements include concerts in New York at Carnegie Hall and for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, University of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Santa Monica, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Portland, and at the University of Maryland where the quartet are Visiting Artists. The quartet will become Offical Chamber Music Ensemble at the Segerstrom Center.
The members of the Takács are Artists in Residence at the University of Colorado and during the summer months join the faculty at the Music Academy of the West, running an intensive quartet seminar there.
