Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’
The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick. In addition to Mr. Krosnick, the ISQ has coached with Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Joseph Kalichstein, Roger Tapping, Timothy Eddy, Donald Weilerstein, Atar Arad, Bob McDonald, Christoph Richter, Miriam Fried, and Paul Biss, while performing in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Ravinia Festival.
Planned Performances
“The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini” (2022) Dinuk Wijeratne
b. 1978
“umbra” (2017) Aida Shirazi
b.1987
Selections from “The Art of Fugue” Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapuncti 1-4 1685-1750
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36 (1945) Benjamin Britten
1913-1976
Allegro calmo senza rigore
Vivace
Chacony (Sostenuto-molto piu Andante-molto piu Adagio)
Program credits: The Isidore String Quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists, www.davidroweartists.com