Cassatt Quartet Plays Montgomery, Kimura, Kramer, and Shaw

The Cassatt String Quartet performs four recent works by contemporary composers: Jessie Montgomery, Mari Kimura, Lawrence Kramer, and Caroline Shaw.  The concert is part of Fordham University’s Voices Up! series, which has been presenting modern and contemporary chamber and vocal music since 2009.

The concert will be held on April 10^th at 7:30 PM in the 12^th Floor Lounge of Fordham’s Lowenstein Building, NW corner of 60^th St. and Columbus Ave.  Tickets are $25, $15 seniors, available via Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/CSQ2026. 

The Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world for four decades, with appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall; Tanglewood Music Center; the Kennedy Center; Théâtre des Champs-Élysées; Centro National de las Artes; Maeda Hall; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. 

Mari Kimura’s work at the intersection of music and technology has earned her a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission from Harvard, and a residency at IRCAM in Paris. In 2025, she received the SEAMUS Award for lifetime achievement in electroacoustic music.  Her MUGIC® sensor, which translates motion into visual imagery, is in use at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Julliard, and will be featured in this concert.

Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor at Fordham University, turned to composing in 2007 after winning international renown as a musicologist, including the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.  His vocal and chamber music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe and won composer competitions nine times.

Jessie Montgomery is a GRAMMY® Award-winning composer, violinist, and educator. Named Performance Today’s 2025 Classical Woman of the Year, she concluded a three-year appointment in 2024 as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Mead Composer-in-Residence and is currently the Curtis Institute of Music’s Composer in Residence.

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums and often works in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist.  She is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammys, and an honorary doctorate from Yale.