Takács Quartet at Lakewood Cultural Center May 1, 2012

Newly appointed Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, Takács Quartet returns to Lakewood with Cellist, Judith Glyde to present Schubert’s String Quintet

The Lakewood Cultural Center is pleased to announce the return engagement of the Takács Quartet, accompanied by cellist, Judith Glyde at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in the intimate 316-seat theater (470 S. Allison Parkway at Wadsworth and Alameda). Tickets are $26 and are available by calling 303-987-7845, online at www.Lakewood.org/CulturalCenter or at the Lakewood Cultural Center Box Office, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Senior, student and group discounts available. Free parking on site.

Recognized as one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, the Grammy Award winning Takács Quartet, Edward Dusinberre and Károly Schranz, violins, Geraldine Walther, viola, and András Fejér, cello, returns to Lakewood to perform the Quartettsatz by Schubert and String Quartet in D major, Op. 64, No. 5, “The Lark,” by Haydn. Accompanied by distinguished cellist Judith Glyde, they will also present String Quintet in C major, Schubert’s masterpiece, written only weeks before his death.

The Takacs Quartet, based in Boulder at the University of Colorado, performs ninety concerts a year worldwide. With an intoxicating energy and faultless musical instincts, the Quartet is renowned for its exacting standards and hugely engaging performances, and enjoys an unsurpassed reputation throughout Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia. John Gilhooly, Director of Wigmore Hall (London), recently announced that from the 2012-13 season, the Takács Quartet will be Associate Artists at the Hall. This is a new position which is awarded on a long-term basis to senior internationally acclaimed ensembles who will be central to the venue’s chamber music output over many years. The Quartet was the Winner of the 2011 Award for Chamber Music and Song presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. The 2010-2011 season included a Bartok Cycle in Sydney, Australia, and a three-concert series focusing on Schubert in New York City (92nd Street Y), and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The 2011-12 season will focus on the music of Janacek, Britten, Debussy and Ravel, with performances in major cities across the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. 2011-12 will also find the quartet collaborating with pianists Garrick Ohlsson and Joyce Yang.

The Quartet's multi-award winning recordings include the Late Quartets by Beethoven which in 2005 won Disc of the Year and Chamber Award from BBC Music Magazine, a Gramophone Award and a Japanese Record Academy Award. Their recordings of the early and middle Beethoven quartets collected a Grammy, another Gramophone Award, a Chamber Music of America Award and two further awards from the Japanese Recording Academy. In 2006 the Takács Quartet made their first recording for Hyperion Records, of Schubert's D804 and D810. A disc featuring Brahms' Piano Quintet with Stephen Hough was released to great acclaim in November 2007 and was subsequently nominated for a Grammy. Brahms' Quartets Op. 51 and Op. 67 were released in the fall of 2008 and a disc featuring the Schumann Piano Quintet with Marc-Andre Hamelin was released in late 2009. The complete Haydn “Apponyi” Quartets, Op. 71 and 74, were released in November 2011.

The quartet is known for innovative programming. In 2007 it performed with Academy Award–winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Everyman” in Carnegie Hall, inspired by the Philip Roth novel. In May 2008 the quartet performed a new piece commissioned by the South Bank by James Macmillan. In 2010 the quartet collaborated with the Colorado Shakespeare Theatre and playwright David Morse in a production of “Quartet”, a play set in Beethoven’s later years when he was writing the A minor quartet, Opus 132.

Judith Glyde, cellist and chair of the University of Colorado – Boulder string faculty, studied with Bernard Greenhouse, formerly of the Beaux Arts Trio. She received a bachelor’s degree at the Hartt College of Music and a master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music. A founding member of the Manhattan String Quartet, she left the Quartet at the end of the 1991-92 season to become Professor of Cello and Director of the String Quartet Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Ms. Glyde also continues to perform as soloist and guest artist with orchestras and festivals, including the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Bonefro, Italy.

Formerly Artist-in-Residence at Town Hall in New York City; Colgate University, New York; and at Grinnell College, Iowa, Ms. Glyde, performs over 100 concerts a year throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and the former Soviet Union. Her discography includes over 25 recordings for Naxos, Hearts of Space, Sony, Koch, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage Society, CRI, Educo, XLNT, Centaur Records and Opus One, including a set of six ESS.A.Y. compact discs featuring the 15 string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. These recordings have received the highest praise, including TIME magazine’s “Best of ‘91.” Her latest recording of Piston Chamber Music, recorded in Townsville, Australia, in the summer of 2000, won the Chamber Music America WQXR Recording of the Year.

The 2011-2012 Lakewood Cultural Center Presents season is generously supported by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), with appreciation to the citizens of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District,Colorado Creative Industries, to promote, support and expand the creative industries that drive Colorado’s economy, Sheraton Denver West and the Denver Post Community, improving and enriching the lives of those in our community.