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The Los Angeles Piano Quartet
The Los Angeles Piano Quartet made its debut at The Music Center in Los Angeles in l977, and soon earned recognition as America's premier piano quartet. The Los Angeles Piano Quartet has been an active force in the creation of new works for piano quartet, commissioning works from such prominent contemporary composers as Stephen Hartke, Gerard Schurmann, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky, whose piano quartet had its premiere performance by the LAPQ at the 2005 Tucson Festival. The ensemble has been supported in this activity by the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America. Violinist Yehonatan Berick was a prizewinner at the 1993 Naumburg Competition and a recipient of the 1996-97 Prix Opus. He is a member of Musicians from Marlboro, the Lortie-Berick-Lysy Piano Trio, and the Huberman String Quartet. His studies were at Tel Aviv University's Music Academy and at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is currently Professor of Violin at the University of Michigan. He plays on a violin by Honore Derazy Pere made in 1852 and a viola by Stanley Kiernoziak made in 2003. Violist Katherine Murdock has performed throughout the world. She appeared at Lincoln Center as a guest of the Beaux Arts Trio, toured New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand String Quartet, South America with the New York Philharmonic, and Europe with a chamber ensemble from Orpheus. From 1988 to 1994, Ms. Murdock was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Maryland and SUNY Stony Brook, and in the summers is on the Artist-faculty of the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall festivals. Cellist Steven Doane has been a member of the cello faculty at the Eastman School of Music since 1981. He was formerly principal cellist of the Milwaukee Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic, and a member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Arts Trio during the 1980s. Between 1995 and 1999, Doane was an Associate in Cello at the Royal College of Music in London, and, following a series of master classes at the Royal Academy in London, has been named visiting professor by that institution. Pianist Xak Bjerken has given solo and chamber music recitals throughout Europe and the United States. Mr. Bjerken has held chamber music residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, performed at the Olympic Music Festival, and served on the faculty of the Eastern Music Festival. Mr. Bjerken is Professor of Piano at Cornell University. |
