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The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers,[1] including quartets by Elliott Carter[2] and Ruth Crawford Seeger.[3] Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, who premiered the work in 1986.[4] The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively.[5]

The quartet was founded in 1965,[6] and remained active until the late 1990s. During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize.[7] In 1975 the group became the quartet-in-residence at Columbia University, remaining at Columbia for at least two decades.[8]

Members

• Matthew Raimondi, violin
• Anahid Ajemian, violin
• Bernard Zaslav, viola (succeeded by Jean Dupouy, Jean Dane, and Ron Carbone; the quartet also recorded with violist Maureen Gallagher)
• Seymour Barab, cello (succeeded by Michael Rudiakov, Michael Haber and Mark Shuman)

References

External links

• The Composers Quartet discography at Discogs

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