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Cassatt String Quartet's Fall 2026 Season
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Cassatt String Quartet's 40th anniversary performances continue through fall 2026
Highlight is anniversary concert on October 15 at Merkin Hall featuring premieres by Victoria Bond and Laura Kaminsky and music by Joan Tower
Plus concerts at Music Mountain, Bohemian National Hall, and Seal Bay Festival
The Cassatt String Quartet's 40th anniversary season continues through the fall of 2026 with violinists Muneko Otani and Laura Jean Goldberg, violist Amy Galluzzo and cellist Yi Qun Xu.
The highlight of the season is a special anniversary concert at Merkin Hall with pianist Magdalena Stern-Baczewska featuring the premiere of a piano quintet by Victoria Bond and a new work by Laura Kaminsky, plus music written for the quartet by Joan Tower.
The quintet commissioned Bond to write the quintet "New York Nocturne" especially for the anniversary. It is inspired by four Georgia O'Keefe paintings portraying NYC at night. For Kaminsky's premiere of her new octet "The Blue Bottle," the Cassatts will be joined by the Fry Street Quartet.
"We are thrilled to present this significant program to cap our 40th anniversary," says first violinist Muneko Otani. "We've been so privileged to have such fruitful relationships with Victoria, Joan, and Laura over the years. Each of these composers have written such beautiful works for us, it's an honor to present them all on the October 15 program capping this momentous anniversary."
The quartet's fall season is rounded out with a show at Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, on August 30 featuring the world premiere of a clarinet quintet by Javier Montiel, Seal Bay Festival performances across Maine September 13-15, and a concert at Bohemian National Hall in New York City on December 5.
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