Violist

The world-renowned Takács Quartet was founded in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary. Today the quartet, comprised of Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello), captivates audiences with their innovative programming. In collaboration with bandoneon virtuoso Julian Labro, the program features music from Labro, Dessner, Bach, Ravel, and more.

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Takács Quartet with Julian Labro

Stanford University

Takács Quartet

Kleinhans Music Hall

As the world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 49th season, the ensemble is excited to bring a new work written for the quartet by Phoenix composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama, a co-commission from nine major U.S. concert series. Quartet members Edward Dusinberre (violin), Harumi Rhodes (violin), Richard O’Neill (viola), and András Fejér (cello) will perform Ngwenyama’s The Natural World, bookended by Haydn’s String Quartet in B Flat, op. 76 no. 4, “Sunrise” and Beethoven’s String Quartet no. 8 in E Minor, op. 59, no. 2, a glorious slow movement composed while Beethoven contemplated the starry night sky.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

The Takács Quartet are renowned around the world for their elegant, incisive accounts of the classic quartet repertoire and for their appetite for new music. They combine a rock-solid commitment to the essentials of the classic repertoire and a zest for new music and unconventional partnerships: in recent seasons, they’ve collaborated with bandoneon standout Julien Labro, composer and The National vocalist Bryce Dessner, vocalist Clarice Assad, and actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep

Digital Concert: Takács Quartet

The Takács Quartet are renowned around the world for their elegant, incisive accounts of the classic quartet repertoire and for their appetite for new music. They combine a rock-solid commitment to the essentials of the classic repertoire and a zest for new music and unconventional partnerships: in recent seasons, they’ve collaborated with bandoneon standout Julien Labro, composer and The National vocalist Bryce Dessner, vocalist Clarice Assad, and actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

New England Conservatory

As our audience knows oh-so-well, this world-renowned quartet is renowned for the vitality of its interpretations. They are the first string quartet ever to be inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame, and in their 48th year as an ensemble, they recently won their 4th Gramophone Classical Music Award for Chamber Music in 2021.

Takacs Quartet with Marc-André Hamelin

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

This titan of string ensembles is back to astound Kennedy Center audiences once again. Entering its 49th season, Takács Quartet infuses deep richness and fresh insight into each performance.

Kennedy Center

Featuring Grammy Award Winner Richard O’Neill, and continuing our celebration of Rachmaninoff’s most popular works for orchestra!

Happy 150th, Rachmaninoff! - Masterworks Series

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center

Imagine as an aspiring tennis pro, you get an hour on the court with Venus Williams or Rafael Nadal. Or, as an early career golf talent, hitting the links with Tiger Woods? x2 is the classical music version of this dream – realized before a live audience. This unique series features our Academy Artists paired with the brilliant 2023 fellows – the energy is explosive as emerging talents dance with legends.

x2: Sundial & Dvořák’s String Quintet No. 2

Music Academy of the West

Rich and complex pieces from Schubert and Messaien showcase a multitude of instruments, including violin, piano, clarinet, and cello.

Teaching Artists Showcase: Quartet for the End of Time

Imagine as an aspiring tennis pro, you get an hour on the court with Venus Williams or Rafael Nadal. Or, as an emerging golf talent, hitting the links with Tiger Woods? x2 is the classical music version of this dream – realized before a live audience. This unique series features our Academy Artists paired with the brilliant 2023 fellows – the energy is explosive as emerging talents dance with legends.

x2: Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3

x2: Brahms Piano Quartet

Our masterclasses give audiences a glimpse into our fellows’ journey to classical greatness. It’s an opportunity to observe a one-on-one teaching session between teaching artist and fellow.

Viola Masterclasses

The Music Academy’s brilliant fellows join internationally acclaimed soprano Ana María Martínez and the Takács Quartet in a performance including works from Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms to Héctor Campos Parsi and Federico Moreno Torroba. The energy is explosive as emerging talents play with legends.

Takács Quartet 

Lobero Theatre

The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its forty-eighth season. Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about the 2022-2023 season that begins with a tour of Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea and includes the release of two new cds for Hyperion Records. A disc of Haydn’s opp. 42, 77 and 103 is followed by the first recording of an extraordinary new work written for the Takács by Stephen Hough, Les Six Rencontres, presented with quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux.

St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church

Academy artists paired with the brilliant 2022 fellows. Featuring Mosher guest artist Augustin Hadelich

x2 Series: Antonín Dvořák Quintet “The American”

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 <p>“Arguably the greatest string quartet in the world” (<em>The Guardian</em>), the energetic and imaginative program features two new commissions and a solo set by renowned bandoneon player Julien Labro.

Takács Quartet with Julien Labro

The Broad Stage

One of the world’s most prodigious and popular quartets, the Takács Quartet has thrilled audiences with its vitality and energy for more than four decades. “The quartet members, individually, in pairs or joyfully together, bring a perfect balance of individual understanding and ensemble cohesion,” according to Bachtrack. “Fleet-fingered accordionist” (Detroit Free Press) Julien Labro makes a delightfully welcome return to SF Performances.

Richard O’Neill

Violist

Events

Apr 21, 2024

Takács Quartet with Julian Labro · Stanford Live

Mar 26, 2024

Takács Quartet · Buffalo Chamber Music Society

Mar 22, 2024

Takács Quartet · Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Feb 18, 2024

Digital Concert: Takács Quartet · Celebrity Series of Boston

Feb 16, 2024

Takács Quartet · Celebrity Series of Boston

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