American
String Quartet

Career Highlights

1974	American String Quartet founded by students at The Julliard School Winners of the Coleman Prize & the Naumburg Award Aspen Music Festival residency begins
1975	New York debut, Alice Tully Hall
1976	Featured ensemble: Carnegie Hall/The Julliard School BiCentennial Concert Series
1977	Featured on CBS’s Camera Three “Quartets” broadcast
1978	One of first NEA Concert/Workshop Tour Grant Winners
1979	First tour of Taiwan
1979–1998	Taos School of Music residency
1980	1st European Tour
1980–1990	Peabody Conservatory residency
1982	Featured ensemble on Steve Martin’s Best Show Ever, produced by NBC’s Saturday Night Live Rice University Shepherd School of Music residency begins (1982–1985)
1984	Manhattan School of Music residency begins Complete Schoenberg Quartet Cycle for UCLA Schoenberg Institute 10th Anniversary
1988	Featured Ensemble in Hermann Prey’s Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y, New York City
1989	Commission of George Tsontakis 4th Quartet with a grant from Chamber Music America
1990	Violinist Peter Winograd joins the quartet
1991	University of Nebraska Lied Center residency begins (1991–1994) First tour of Japan Complete Mozart Quintets with violist Michael Tree at Manhattan School of Music
1992–1997	Complete Recordings of Mozart String Quartets on set of matched Stradivarius instruments (MusicMasters 6 CD set)
1993	Second tour of Japan — Inaugural concerts for Yokahama’s Philia Hall
1994	Performance of Bartók’s 4th Quartet with New York City Ballet
1996–2002	“Cycles within Cycles,” Mozart Viola Quintets and Bartók Quartets at Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
1996	Montreal Symphony season opening performances
1997–2000	Beethoven the Contemporary series for University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Musical Society
1997	Performers and adjudicators at the Evian Music Festival and Quartet Competition
1999	25th Anniversary — Tour of all 50 U.S. states
2005	First tour to China
2006	Cellist Wolfram Koessel joins the ASQ
2009	First tour of Israel, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa First tour of South America (with guest artist Menahem Pressler, piano)
2010–11	35th Anniversary — NSS Music releases CD Schubert’s Echo Residency at Taipei National University (TNUA) in Taiwan European tour: Germany, Spain and Switzerland (with guest artist Menahem Pressler, piano)
2014–2015	Complete cycle of Beethoven quartets in Tel Aviv (2014), again in Haifa (2015)
2015	Complete string quartets and quintets of Mendelssohn and Brahms at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art