VC ARTISTS | The Dover Quartet – ‘The Young American String Quartet of the Moment’

The Dover Quartet was recently dubbed by the New Yorker magazine as ‘the young American string quartet of the moment’

The Philadelphia-based Dover Quartet has firmly established themselves as one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles to emerge internationally in recent years.

Graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Rice University Shepherd School of Music, the Dovers are former top prize winners at the Fischoff, Wigmore Hall and Banff International String Quartet Competitions – and recent recipients of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Lincoln Center Hunt Family Prize and an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Comprising violinists Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violist Milena Pajaro-Van de Stadt and cellist Camden Shaw, the Quartet was recently dubbed by the New Yorker as ‘the young American string quartet of the moment’ – with the Chicago Tribune suggesting they ‘have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet’.

The Dover currently perform in excess of 100 concerts per year internationally – and serve as Quartet-in-Residence for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chamber Music Northwest, Northwestern University Bienen School of Music, Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere, Peoples’ Symphony and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | MENDELSSOHN STRING QUARTET IN F MINOR OP. 80 | NORTHWESTERN BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | 2018

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BEETHOVEN STRING QUARTET OP. 18 NO. 4 | 1ST MVT | BROOKLYN CLASSICAL | 2017

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BORODIN STRING QUARTET NO. 2 | 3RD MVT | BROOKLYN CLASSICAL | 2018

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET & MATT HAIMOVITZ | SCHUBERT STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR | 2ND MVT | 2016

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | SMETANA | STRING QUARTET NO. 1 'FROM MY LIFE' | 2017

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BARBER | 'ADAGIO FOR STRINGS' | 2015

 

VC ARTISTS DOVER QUARTET | BRAHMS | STRING QUARTET OP. 51 NO. 2 IN A MINOR | BANFF INTERNATIONAL STRING COMPETITION | 2013

 

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Name: Joel Link

Violin: 1856-1857 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume on loan by Desiree Ruhstrat

Bow: Charles Espey

Rosin: Bella Rosin

Shoulder Rest: Kun Original

Teachers: Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, Frank Huang, Roland Vamos

Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University

Website: www.doverquartet.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheDoverQuartet

 

Name: Bryan Lee

Violin: 1904 Riccardo Antoniazzi

Bow: François Nicolas Voirin, Charles Espey, Cody Kowalski, Gilles Nehr

Accessories: Andrea Bang Rosin | Kun Bravo Shoulder Rest

Teachers: Pamela Frank, Victor Danchenko, Choong-Jin Chang, Soovin Kim, Frank Huang

Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University

Website: www.doverquartet.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet

 

Name: Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt

Viola: 1780 Michele Deconet “the Kroyt”, generously on loan in memory of Boris Kroyt of the Budapest Quartet

Bow: David Samuels, Charles Espey, Francois Malo, John Dalley

Accessories: Sheriff Rosin

Teachers: Michael Tree, Roberto Diaz, Misha Amory, Joseph DePasquale, James Dunham, Michael Klotz, Sergiu Schwartz and Melissa Pierson Barrett

Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University

Website: www.doverquartet.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet

 

Name: Camden Shaw

Cello: 2010 Frank Ravatin, 2010 Sam Zygmuntowicz

Bow: 2014 Elizabeth Van Der Veer Shaak

Accessories: Planetary Perfection Geared Pegs | Marvin Cable Tailpiece | Tone Acoustics “Grand Concerto” Endpin

Rosin: Pops Bass Rosin

Teachers: Toby Saks, Peter Wiley, Norman Fischer, David Finkel, Steven Isserlis

Schools: The Curtis Institute of Music | Rice University | IMS Prussia Cove

Website: www.doverquartet.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thedoverquartet

 

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