Embark on a melodious journey with the renowned Takács Quartet as they enchant audiences across the United States in 2025. Celebrated for their technical brilliance and emotional depth, the Grammy-winning ensemble presents a series of captivating performances, blending classical legacies with contemporary innovations. With events ranging from intimate chamber music sessions in Boulder to collaborative concerts with bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro in Chicago, the Takács Quartet continues to redefine the boundaries of chamber music. Discover the magic of the Takács Quartet and their illustrious collaborators in these unforgettable musical experiences.

The Harmonious Touch of the Takács Quartet: A Musical Journey

The Music Academy's Summer Music Festival, nestled in the vibrant heart of downtown Santa Barbara, brings an exquisite array of chamber music to life through the talents of the renowned Takács Quartet and the masterful teaching artists. This year, celebrate the Takács Quartet's 50th Anniversary and experience the artistry of musicians like Sasha Cooke and Jeremy Denk. Later, the Takács Quartet will also grace Philadelphia with a rich tapestry of compositions, including works by Beethoven, Haydn, Janáček, and a new piece by Clarice Assad.

A Symphony of Strings: The Takács Quartet and Teaching Artists Illuminate Santa Barbara and Philadelphia

Join the Takács Quartet as they embark on their 51st season, captivating audiences with timeless chamber music masterpieces and innovative collaborations. With performances at top venues across the United States, the quartet weaves together classic compositions by Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, while embracing contemporary works by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad. Experience the artistry of renowned violist Jordan Bak and pianist Clarice Assad as they bring new dynamics to these celebrated pieces. Delve into the rich legacy and vibrant future of the Takács Quartet, a pillar of expressive and technical excellence.

Takács Quartet: A Journey Through Masterpieces and Fresh Collaborations

Beloved by audiences worldwide, the GRAMMY® Award winning Takács Quartet returns to BroadStage with a captivating program of classical masterpieces and a bold new work proudly co-commissioned by BroadStage.

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Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center

The legendary Takács Quartet brings their unparalleled artistry to the stage, illuminated by the soft glow of candlelight. Prepare to be mesmerized by their refined performance and profound musical interpretations. Their program is a delightful mix of classic and contemporary, featuring Haydn’s elegant String Quartet Op. 74 No. 3, the inventive world premiere of Clarice Assad’s new String Quartet (a Schlichting commission), and Debussy’s spontaneous String Quartet. The intimate atmosphere created by the candlelight will allow you to connect with the music on a profound level, highlighting the beauty and emotion of each piece.

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Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Known across the globe for their unmatched artistry and expressive depth, The Takács Quartet returns to Caramoor for a thrilling performance that commemorates their 50th season as an ensemble. Winners of three Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Wigmore Hall Medal among many other prestigious honors, the quartet will perform masterpieces by Haydn and Beethoven, alongside a new work – about the very beginning of time – commissioned by Takács.

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Experience the Music Academy’s Summer Music Festival in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara as their unrivaled teaching artists bring chamber music treasures to life. Vibrant artistic conversations emerge as profound musical relationships unfold before your eyes and ears.

Teaching Artists Showcase: Mozart & Ravel

Lobero Theatre

Experience the Music Academy’s Summer Music Festival in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara as the world-renowned Takács Quartet – celebrating their 50th Anniversary – bring chamber music treasures to life. Vibrant artistic conversations emerge as profound musical relationships unfold before your eyes and ears.

Takács Quartet @ 50

This year, the world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to Samueli Theater with a beautiful program including Haydn, Britten, and Schubert.

Takacs Quartet w/ David Requiro, Cello

The Takács Quartet, widely regarded as one of the world’s great quartets, celebrate their 50th Anniversary season in 2024-2025; the Quartet are critically acclaimed around the world for their virtuosic performances, ingenious programming and unsurpassed recordings. On the brink of this major milestone, the Takács Quartet is generating excitement and looking toward the future, with a steady stream of new partnerships, commissions and recordings as well as an ambitious performance schedule. This season, they will perform more than 40 concerts in North America (including Aspen, New York, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington DC, La Jolla, Berkeley and Portland, OR, among others); embark on two European tours, including Wigmore Hall, where they are Associate Artists; appear at the Edinburgh Festival; and conduct tours in Asia and Australia. The Takács’ 50th Anniversary will be celebrated in detail in an October cover story in The Strad.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

A performance of music by Beethoven and Janácek by a group The New York Times has called “one of the world’s greatest string quartets.”

Yale University

The Takács Quartet, celebrated for their innovative and varied programming, will be performing alongside bandoneon virtuoso and composer Julien Labro. This collaboration, part of the University of Chicago's Classic Concert Series, promises an evening of exceptional chamber music. The Takács Quartet, now in their forty-ninth season and honored as Gramophone Hall-of-Famers and GRAMMY winners, are renowned for their mastery and profound interpretations. Their partnership with Labro, known for his virtuosity and compositional prowess, brings a unique blend of classical and contemporary sounds.

The program features a diverse selection of works, including Bryce Dessner's "Circles," Labro's "Meditation 1," and Dino Saluzzi's "Minguito." The evening will also include J.S. Bach's "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645," Labro's "Astoración," and Maurice Ravel's "String Quartet in F Major," with its four movements: Allegro moderato très doux, Assez vif très rhythmé, Très lent, and Vif et agité. Additionally, the performance will showcase Clarice Assad's "Clash," further highlighting the ensemble's commitment to contemporary music.

This concert exemplifies the Takács Quartet's dedication to exploring new musical landscapes while honoring classical traditions, making it a noteworthy event in the chamber music world.

Takács Quartet + Julien Labro

Reynolds Club

The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet’s dynamic and insightful performances have established the ensemble as one of the most sought-after chamber music groups of our time. Their unique blend of technical brilliance and emotional depth creates an unforgettable musical performance. Experience the quartet that has enchanted Boulder audiences for over three decades and counting.

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University of Colorado Boulder

This concert is one not to be missed featuring the world-renowned Takács Quartet  now entering its forty-ninth season. Founded in Budapest, Hungary they are currently Associate Artists at the Wigmore Hall, London and Artists-in-Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. They first performed at MCCS in 1985 and they return with the same opening Haydn quartet Opus 76/4.

A BBC Music Magazine review of their recent recordings of Haydn said “One thing is certain about this new recording by the Takács Quartet: you will not hear better string quartet playing anywhere in the world today.”

The Stoller Hall

Hailed by The New York Times for “making the most traditional of works feel radical once more,” the Takács Quartet returns to Aspen for two performances, the first featuring pianist Stephen Hough as both composer and performer.

A Recital by the Takács Quartet and Stephen Hough piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

Be the first to experience a brand new concerto by Gabriela Lena Frank, heralded as one of the most significant women composers in history by the Washington Post. Kachkaniraqmi (“I Still Exist”) was commissioned by the Festival and will be performed by Boulder’s Grammy-winning Takács Quartet as ensemble-soloist alongside the Orchestra. After intermission, Joan Tower’s brilliant Concerto for Orchestra allows for great moments of individual virtuosity, but ultimately it is the entire Orchestra that shines. “I had imagined a long and large landscape that had a feeling of space and distance,” Tower says of her Concerto for Orchestra, in which the music “travels a long road.” This program celebrates three generations of women composers and opens with Florence Price’s Adoration, originally conceived for solo organ and performed here in its stunning arrangement for strings.

Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere

Chautauqua Auditorium

The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet has enchanted audiences at CU Boulder for more than three decades and counting. The group’s dynamic and insightful performances have established the quartet as one of the most sought-after chamber music groups of our time. Their unique blend of technical brilliance and emotional depth creates a truly unforgettable musical experience.

Takács Quartet (digital and in-person)

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.

Takács Quartet with Julian Labro

Stanford University

Eastman Ranlet Series: Takács Quartet

University of Rochester

The Takács Quartet, a perennial UMS favorite, returns with a program that nods to the natural world, opening with Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet and closing with Beethoven’s second Razumovsky quartet, the slow movement of which was inspired by Beethoven’s contemplation of the starry sky. In between, the Quartet performs a new UMS co-commission by Nokuthula Endo Ngwenyama. Born in Los Angeles of Zimbabwean-Japanese parentage, Ngwenyama attended the Colburn School in Los Angeles and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, in addition to receiving a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard. Her new work, co-commissioned by UMS and a group of eight other presenters, brings a deep sense of awe and wonder to the quartet repertoire.

University of Michigan

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 NY Times said the Takács makes “the most traditional of works feel radical once more.” One of the world’s leading string quartets returns for a program of two classics bookending a commissioned work by a composer of Ndebele and Japanese descent.

Union College

“The consummate artistry of the Takács Quartet is simply breathtaking… the best I have ever heard” (The Guardian). Formed in Budapest in 1975, the Takács has become a Philadelphia favorite for its unique blend of drama, warmth, humor, and precision, combining four distinct and compelling musical personalities to bring fresh insights to the string quartet repertoire.

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Among the world’s finest string quartets, the beloved Takács returns for two concerts this season. For its second concert this season, the Grammy and Gramophone Award-winning Berkeley favorite presents a stellar program of works covering a vast emotional terrain. Hugo Wolf’s tuneful Italian Serenade is balanced by Bartók’s awesome second quartet, which patiently unfolds in a long, almost spiritual dramatic arc. Schubert’s diabolically challenging final string quartet is a lesson in extremes of tone, texture, and tempo. The singular Takács has the range and focus to pull it all off seamlessly. “You will not hear better string quartet playing anywhere in the world today” (BBC Music Magazine).

University of California, Berkeley

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

Students at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest (including founding cellist András Fejér) formed the Takács Quartet in 1975, and soon won prizes at major European competitions. The Takács became the first string quartet to be awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal (2014) and also the first string quartet to be inducted into Gramophone’s Hall of Fame (2012). The quartet members are Christoffersen Faculty Fellows at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

California Institute of Technology

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. Their program for this engagement offers two notable nineteenth-century string quartets alongside flow, a new work and Celebrity Series co-commission from violist and composer Nokuthula Nqwenyama. 

Celebrity Series of Boston Presents: Takács Quartet

New England Conservatory

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.

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

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

The Grammy winning Takács Quartet, "simply the best I have heard in concert" (The Guardian), returns to Shriver Hall with a program inspired by the natural world. A premiere by Nokuthula Ngwenyama, an American composer of Zimbabwean-Japanese heritage, is bookended by Haydn and Beethoven's Op. 59, No. 2 Quartet, conceived as the composer gazed at the stars contemplating the harmony of the spheres.  

Johns Hopkins University

Among the world’s finest string quartets, the beloved Takács returns for two concerts this season, the first a compelling program of new and canonic works. Haydn’s beloved Sunrise quartet is among his late-period gems, and Beethoven’s middle-period E minor quartet from the Op. 59 Razumovsky series opens up new musical horizons as the composer breaks and remakes the rules of musical drama.

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: Ana María Martínez & Takács Quartet

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

All works on the program feature composers thinking about home.  Britten composed his first quartet in California in the summer of 1941. During that time an article by E.M. Forster about Aldeburgh and the poetry of George Crabbe prompted him to decide to return to England and make his home there.  In August 1939 Bartok began his sixth quartet in idyllic Alpine scenery in Switzerland but hurried home to Budapest following the outbreak of World War 11. He finished the piece in November and shortly afterwards decided to leave Hungary for good. In exile in America he heard the first performance of his sixth quartet given in New York in January 1941.  Dvorak’s opus 106, by contrast celebrates a homecoming. In May 1895 Dvorak returned to Bohemia from New York.  He composed opus 106 later that year.

Tucson Convention Center

The intrepid ensemble shines a light on the sole string quartet written by Fanny Mendelssohn, an active 19th century composer whose works were largely unrecognized during her lifetime. Jeremy Denk joins the group for the second half with Schumann’s ebullient piano quintet, one of the very first works to pair the traditional string quartet configuration with piano. Dedicated to Clara Schumann, the fiendishly difficult piano part was first performed by Fanny Mendelssohn’s brother, Felix, when Clara fell ill, though she was at the keyboard for the first public performance a month later.

Takács Quartet with Jeremy Denk, piano

Winner of last year’s Gramophone Award in the Chamber Music category, the renowned Takács Quartet never fails to thrill in its Berkeley recitals. The hidden gem on the ensemble’s first 2022–23 program is Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s sole quartet of 1834, a bold, inventive, and distinctive work unperformed in her lifetime and forgotten until the score was discovered in the 1980s. This fascinating composition is bookended by Haydn’s ebullient final quartet and the first of Beethoven’s late-period quartets. “What endures about the Takács Quartet, year after year, is how equally the four players carry the music” (The Guardian).

Academy artists paired with the brilliant 2022 fellows. Featuring the Takács Quartet.

x2 Series: Mendelssohn Octet with Takács Quartet

The acclaimed quartet in residence will perform works by Haydn, Coleridge-Taylor, and Dvořák.

Special Event: Takács Quartet Concert

Music Academy of the West

For its second Cal Performances concert this season, the peerless Takács Quartet collaborates with acclaimed British-born pianist and composer Stephen Hough. The ensemble performs the Bay Area premiere of Les Six Rencontres, a new work by Hough as well as his first string quartet; Hough then joins them for Dvořák’s elegant Op. 81 Piano Quintet. Pianist and ensemble have enjoyed a long and fruitful musical relationship, and their recording together of the Brahms Piano Quintet earned a Grammy nomination; as the Guardian noted of this pairing, “chamber music does not get much better.” The Takács also performs Haydn’s Sunrise quartet from the composer’s Op. 76 works, which are prized for their spirit of invention and brilliant ensemble interaction.

Takács Quartet & Stephen Hough

As it enters its 51st season, the renowned Takács Quartet continues to deepen its connections to timeless masterworks and enliven the string quartet repertoire through fresh artistic collaborations.

Takács Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola

“There is no finer ensemble in the world, expressively and technically,” than the Takács Quartet (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Formed in Budapest in 1975, this peerless ensemble returns to Philadelphia to perform a new work by Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad, as well as Haydn’s charming Rider Quartet and Beethoven’s profound and groundbreaking Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131—which he considered his favorite achievement in the genre.

The always superlative Takács Quartet performs works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Claude Debussy, as well as a UMS co-commission by U-M alumna Clarice Assad, who is working on her second piece for the Quartet.

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