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NEW YORK (January 16) -- Mannes College The New School for Music’s Schneider Concerts presents the Meccore Quartet, winner of the 2012 London International String Quartet Competition, in a program that features celebrated Polish composers Karol Szymanovski and Simon Laks, as well as Debussy. The performance will take place on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 2p.m. in The Auditorium at 66 W. 12th Street at The New School. Established in 2007, the Meccore Quartet is one of Poland’s most compelling young ensembles. In April 2012 the quartet won the 2nd prize at the Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition in London. The ensemble was also awarded three additional prizes for the best performances of works by J. Haydn, W. A. Mozart and B. Dean; and in 2011 was awarded the Finalist Award and the Special Award at the 9th International String Quartet Competition Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia. In 2010 the quartet received the 1st prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Weiden, and in 2009 won the 1st prize at the Max Reger International Chamber Music Competition in Sondershausen. The Meccore Quartet has given performances at major European music festivals including Rheingau, Mecklemburg Vorpommern, L. van Beethoven Spring Festival, Budapest Spring, Heidelberg Frühling, Kissinger Sommer, Festival Radio France Montpellier, and Bregenzer Festspiele and has appeared in many prestigious concert halls, among others Beethovenhaus in Bonn, National Philharmony in Warsaw, Wigmore Hall in London, Musikverein in Vienna. In 2014 the ensemble had the honor to perform as the first Polish String Quartet during the ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day in German Bundestag. In 2012 Meccore String Quartet were awarded the first prize and an annual scholarship by the Irene Steels-Wilsing Stiftung, which resulted in the Ensemble´s debut CD released in 2013 featuring Mozart and Beethoven string quartets. Since 2010 Meccore String Quartet have been hosting and organizing the International Chamber Music Festival "Q'arto Mondi" in Poznań, featuring top quartets from all over the world. The Meccore Quartet,
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 2:00 p.m. Wojciech Koprowski and Jaroslaw Nadrzycki, violin Karol Szymanowski String Quartet No. 1 in C Major (1917) Simon Laks String Quartet No. 3 (1945) Claude Debussy String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10 (1893) This concert supported by the Polish Cultural Institute of New York and the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation. The 2014-15 Schneider Concerts season is supported by the Alexander Schneider Foundation and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Single tickets on sale now: |
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Hailed in The New York Times as “one of the best deals in town for lovers of classical music,” for nearly six decades, Mannes College The New School for Music’s Schneider Concerts series has presented outstanding young artists and ensembles at non-exclusionary ticket prices. The series stays young by keeping in touch with the next generation of classical music leaders, while remaining connected to a remarkable history that includes the New York debuts of pianist Peter Serkin and the Guarneri, Cleveland, and Vermeer String Quartets and TASHI. Artists such as Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, Jaime Laredo, Yo Yo Ma, and Murray Perahia were introduced to New York audiences early in their careers. The series was founded at The New School in 1957 as New School Concerts by violinist and conductor Alexander Schneider, who led the series until his death in 1993, at which time the series was renamed The Schneider Concerts in his honor. Artistic leadership is now under the auspices of a committee of noted musicians: Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, and Michael Tree. Mannes College The New School for Music develops classical musician/citizens by combining music conservatory traditions with the cutting-edge advantage of being part of The New School, the nation's foremost progressive university. Founded in 1916, the Mannes formula for quality education capitalizes on its world-class faculty, location in the heart of the global arts capital, small class size, and a living tradition of rigor and depth that develops strong technique and great artistry. The Mannes ethos forms the basis of a vibrant community of degree or diploma students in the College or Extension division, and young people studying in Mannes Prep. In this second decade of the 21st century, demands on artists are greater and more complex than ever. Mannes provides a wide range of exciting learning and knowledge building in partnership with its sister divisions of The New School, including one of the world's great design schools, Parsons The New School for Design; the liberal arts at Eugene Lang College; public policy, business, and civic engagement in The New Shool for Public Engagement; and cross disciplinary arts learning at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and The New School for Drama. |
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