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Takács Quartet Plays Haydn, Simon & Schubert

Members of the Takács Quartet pose with their instruments in a performance hall.

Takács Quartet Plays Haydn, Simon & Schubert

Arts for All | College of Arts and Humanities | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Sunday, October 18, 2026 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Gildenhorn Recital Hall, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

About the Event

Internationally respected for their innovative programming, the renowned Takács Quartet has collaborated with a fascinating variety of talents, including the bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro, actors Meryl Streep and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The members of Takács–Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and Mihai Marica (cello)–are Hyperion recording artists and Christoffersen Fellows in Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally founded in 1975 at the Music Academy in Budapest, the quartet is currently based out of North America but tours and performs almost continually around the world. The quartet performs a work by Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon paired with Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major and Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet.
 

Program

  • Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
  • Simon: Warmth from Other Suns
  • Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden”
     

Support for Clarice Presents

Support for Clarice Presents is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council.
 

Add to Calendar 10/18/26 15:00:00 10/18/26 17:00:00 America/New_York Takács Quartet Plays Haydn, Simon & Schubert

About the Event

Internationally respected for their innovative programming, the renowned Takács Quartet has collaborated with a fascinating variety of talents, including the bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro, actors Meryl Streep and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The members of Takács–Edward Dusinberre and Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and Mihai Marica (cello)–are Hyperion recording artists and Christoffersen Fellows in Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally founded in 1975 at the Music Academy in Budapest, the quartet is currently based out of North America but tours and performs almost continually around the world. The quartet performs a work by Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon paired with Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in G Major and Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet.
 

Program

  • Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1
  • Simon: Warmth from Other Suns
  • Schubert: String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden”
     

Support for Clarice Presents

Support for Clarice Presents is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council.
 

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