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Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet

 

First Prize winner of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, winner of the ABC Classic FM Listener’s Choice Award at the 6th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in 2011 and the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the Attacca Quartet comprises violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee, and was formed at the Juilliard School in 2003.

The ensemble made its professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, and has appeared there on numerous occasions since. The Attacca Quartet performed John Adams’s recently composed String Quartet (2008) in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in December 2009. 2010 marked the beginning of “The 68,” an ambitious project in which the Quartet will perform all sixty-eight Haydn string quartets in a special series they created in New York.

The Quartet has also recently been named the Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School, and has taken part in seminars and masterclasses with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Miró, Tokyo, and St Lawrence string quartets, and in the summer of 2005 participated in the International Program for Advanced String Quartets at the Music@Menlo Festival.

Comprised entirely of Juilliard graduates, the members of the Attacca Quartet currently reside in New York City. They consider among their mentors the members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, and St Lawrence quartets.