October 16, 2001
Contact: UCSC Ticket Office: 831.459.2159 (v/tdd)

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures opens its 2001-02 season with the performance of one of the world's premier string ensembles, the Takács Quartet.

CONTACT
Moon Rinaldo
UCSC Arts & Lectures
Publicity and Production Coordinator
831.459.4058
or
Michelle Witt
UCSC Arts & Lectures Director
831.459.3861

UCSC Arts & Lectures office:
Fax: 831.459.4521
E-mail: artslecs@cats.ucsc.edu
Web: events.ucsc.edu/artslecs

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TAKÁCS QUARTET
(spelling note: the second "a" of Takács has an accent mark)

Details
»Classical music concert
»Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 8pm
»UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
»Admission: $25 General / $20 Students and Seniors with ID / $14 UCSC Students with ID
»Tickets: UCSC Ticket Office: 831.459.2159 / On-Line: events.ucsc.edu/artslecs

"The Takács play with a distinctively recognizable rugged immediacy, and with crystalline articulation which is not afraid to remain rough cut when the occasion demands... they don't come much better than this." -The Times (London)

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures opens its 2001-02 season with the performance of one of the world's premier string ensembles, the Takács Quartet. Playing at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall on Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 8:00pm, the ensemble has appeared regularly in every major music capital and prestigious since its formation 26 years ago at Budapest's Liszt Academy.

PROGRAM

Beethoven's
String Quartet No. 10, Op. 74 ("Harp")

Britten's
String Quartet No.3, Op. 94

Brahms's
String Quartet Op. 51 No. 2

Join Arts & Lectures for a post-performance season-opening reception with the Takács Quartet.! After a question and answer period, the quartet will join the audience for a CD signing and dessert reception at the Recital Hall.

ARTIST INFORMATION
Called "…four of the best string alchemists on the planet" by The Chicago Tribune, the Takács Quartet explores its repertoire with intellectual curiosity and intense immediacy as well as warmth, passion and a teasing subtlety. The members of Takács are Edward Dusinberre (violin), Károly Schranz (violin), Roger Tapping (viola), and András Fejér (cello).

Takács's recording of the Bartok cycle won them the 1998 Gramophone Chamber Music Recording of the Year award and a 1999 Grammy nomination. The quartet's subsequent releases for Decca/London include the Grammy nominated Schubert Trout Quintet with pianist Andreas Haefliger; and the ensemble's latest recording, featuring Dvorak's Quartet Op. 51 and his Piano Quintet Op. 81, also with Mr. Haefliger. During this 2001-02 season, after being featured at the Cliburn Festival, the Takács Quartet performs over forty concerts in the U.S. and tours extensively in Europe. Special projects include a fifteen city concert tour with former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, culminating at Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series. Recent Takács seasons have included numerous European performances of Brahms and Beethoven cycles and works of Bartok and Schubert.

A Resident Quartet at the Aspen Festival, the Takács members are also Visiting Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the ensemble has held a Residency at the University of Colorado since 1983. The quartet was originally formed by Gabor Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai, and András Fejér in 1975, while all four were students at Budapest's Liszt Academy.

Tickets: Tickets for the Takács Quartet performance are $25 Adult, $20 Seniors and Students with ID, $14 UCSC Student with ID (Reserved Seating). Tickets are available through the UC Santa Cruz Ticket Office: (831) 459-2159 / tickets@cats.ucsc.edu.

UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures is committed to presenting artists of national and international reputation to Santa Cruz County and beyond.

The 2001-2002 Arts & Lectures Season presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KUSP 88.9FM, New Leaf Community Markets and Continental/Seaway Inns

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