The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment — a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles.
In 2021, the quartet released two albums that embody their redefinition of what a string quartet can be. The first Album, Real Life, featuring guest artists such as TokiMONSTA, Daedalus, and Anne Müller, was followed up by Of all Joys, which features works by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and music of the Renaissance period. Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the quartet is dedicated to presenting and recording new works. Their 2019 release Orange, in collaboration with Caroline Shaw, saw them win the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, with their follow-up album Evergreen winning the 2023 award in the same category. The quartet continues to perform in the world’s best venues and festivals.
Recent highlights include Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival and Miller Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Detroit, Chamber Music Austin and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as well as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Ojai Festival, BRIC Arts and Big Ears Festival. Outside of the US, performances include Kings Place and in Oslo at the Vertavo Haydn Festival as well as performances at Gothenburg Konserthuset, MITO Settembre Festival in Italy, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam, Strings of Autumn Festival Prague, Thüringer Bachwochen, Sala São Paulo in Brazil, Fundación Beethoven in Chile, National Theatre of Panamá, and Teatro Mayor in Bogota. They have also soloed with the Nagoya Philharmonic in Japan, the National Orchestra of Catalunya at the Palau in Barcelona, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Colombian National Orchestra in Bogota.
In addition to the quartet’s traditional concert stage work, they were the first to collaborate with Billie Eilish and FINNEAS on their recent album and also performed with the duo on Saturday Night Live. As featured Artists, the Attacca Quartet can be heard on the soundtrack of the upcoming Ken Burns Documentary Leonardo da Vinci (soundtrack by Caroline Shaw) and the soundtrack for the film We Grown Now (directed by Minhal Baig and soundtrack by Jay Wadley).
In their 2024-25 season, the Attacca Quartet performs for Carnegie Hall, Nashville’s Chamber Music City, and Richmond’s Belvedere Series, and will lead a residency at Montclair State University. Outside of the US, performances include Vancouver’s Music in the Morning, the Winnipeg Symphony, Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and La Biennale Di Venezia. The upcoming season also includes commissions by David Lang and Gabriella Ortiz.
The founding members of the Attacca Quartet met while all studying at The Juilliard School in the early 2000s and they made their professional debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003. Other accolades include First Prize at the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the Top Prize and Listeners’ Choice award winners for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition.
The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community engagement projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, University of Texas, Juilliard School, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Bravo! Vail among others. They are expert programmers and communicators, and beautifully mix existing works with those by living composers.
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