Amstel Quartet

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“The men of the Amstel have no fear,” exclaimed the Dutch press about The Amstel Quartet, winner of the 2006 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Its performances are riveting, filled with high energy, emotion and infectious dynamism.

Recent featured engagements in the US include: NYC appearances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and at the Downtown River to River Festival; concerts in Southern California for Pepperdine University and the Da Camera Society’s Chamber Music in Historic Sites series; as well presentations by Music at Deer Valley (presented by the Utah Symphony), Chamber Music Yellow Springs (OH) and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

In December 2009, the quartet was featured prominently on New York’s WQXR radio on the long-running “McGraw-Hill Young Artists Showcase,” featuring an in-studio performance. The Amstel Quartet’s latest CD, Amstel Peijl, was released on the CAG Records label in late 2008, featuring landmark saxophone quartets by Glass and Glazunov and an arrangement of a Fauré quintet with pianist Wijnand van Klaveren

From the mystery of Bach’s Second Cello Suite in D to Michael Nyman’s music for the film The Piano, the four saxophonists unleash a palpable collective energy and win fans with each performance. Composers, too, such as György Ligeti, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and Arvo Pärt, have nothing but praise for the ingenious adaptations written by members of the Quartet. They have also recently commissioned Michael Torke to write two new pieces, May and June, to join with his now standard sax quartet July.

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http://www.montalvoarts.org

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408-961-5858 (Box Office)