Juilliard @ SOPAC: Ansonia Quartet

This acclaimed ensemble will play Dvorak’s “American,” Webern’s “Langsamer Satz,” Caroline Shaw’s “Entr’acte” and a Quartet from Beethoven’s Op. 18.

Formed at The Juilliard School in September 2016, the Ansonia Quartet has been awarded a Gluck Community Service Fellowship as well as a position in the Honors Chamber Music Program through Juilliard for the 2017-18 academic year. The Ansonia launched a successful crowdfunding campaign over the summer of 2017 to finance a tour throughout Japan, including performing and teaching in Tokyo and Oita. This season, the Ansonia held a residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, working closely with the Dover Quartet, had a one-week tour in Toronto giving community engagement performances and coaching a youth orchestra, appeared at the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center for masterclass with Ani Kavafian, performed with the New York City Ballet, and gave a world premiere of Jia Daqun’s Second String Quartet at FOCUS! Festival. At school, the quartet worked primarily with Ronald Copes and Roger Tapping of the Juilliard String Quartet.

SOPAC is proud to partner with the famed Juilliard School to present some of the finest young musicians in the world today. Juilliard @ SOPAC is supported in part by Samuel Convissor.

Ansonia Quartet

Byungchan Lee, violin
Sumire Hirotsuru, violin
Isabel Kwon, cello
Jocelin Pan, viola