Artists
Artists
Cassatt String Quartet
Acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding ensembles, the New York City-based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout the world, with appearances at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall; Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall; the Tanglewood Music Theater; the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées, Paris; Centro National de las Artes, Mexico City; Maeda Hall, Tokyo; and Beijing’s Central Conservatory. At the Library of Congress, the Cassatt performed on the library’s matched quartet of Stradivarius instruments.
Esteemed music critic Alex Ross named the Cassatt three times to his “10 Best Classical Recordings” list in The New Yorker, and the ensemble has been featured on NPR’s “Performance Today,” Boston’s WGBH, New York’s WQXR and WNYC, Canada’s CBC Radio, and Radio France.
The Cassatt has received numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; USArtists International; Chamber Music America; CMA/ASCAP; the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; Meet the Composer; and the Amphion, Copland, Fromm, and Alice M. Ditson Music Foundations. Since 1995, the ensemble has been on the performing artist roster for the New York State Council on the Arts.
Named for celebrated impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the quartet consists of Muneko Otani, violin; Jennifer Leshnower, violin; Ah Ling Neu, viola.
