Tokyo String Quartet

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Tokyo String Quartet, from left: Martin Beaver, Kikuei Ikeda, Clive Greensmith, Kazuhide Isomura

The Tokyo String Quartet was a renowned string quartet ensemble that was founded at the Juilliard School of Music in 1969 and disbanded in July 2013.

Members

Most recently the quartet played in the following formation:

  • Martin Beaver - violin (member since 2002)
  • Kikuei Ikeda - violin (member since 1974)
  • Kazuhide Isomura - viola (member since 1969, founding member)
  • Clive Greensmith - violoncello (member since 1999)

The Stradivarius

Since 1995, the quartet has played on four Stradivarius instruments, all of which had previously been owned by Niccolò Paganini . After these four instruments were reunited as the "Paganini Quartet" in 1946, they were played by Henri Temianka's Paganini Quartet for 20 years , and then by the Cleveland Quartet, among others. In 1994 the Nippon Music Foundation acquired the four instruments and made them available to the Tokyo String Quartet. After the Tokyo String Quartet was dissolved in 2013, the Nippon Music Foundation awarded the four Paganini Stradivaris to the Hagen Quartet and, since September 2017, to the Quartetto di Cremona .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. A Personal Note. Tokyo String Quartet, accessed June 13, 2013 .
  2. ^ Instruments Owned by Nippon Music Foundation , see Stradivarius: Paganini Quartet .