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MELVIN KAPLAN INC .

20142015
artist list

For more than fifty years, Melvin Kaplan, Inc., has represented many of the worlds most innovative musicians, specializing in the best chamber music and soloists. The artists on our roster are known for their artistic excellence, fertile imaginations, limitless creativity, and warm personalities. They are emerging stars and established, venerated household names. We take special pride in working with presenters and our artists to develop innovative programs, special projects, and unique collaborations. We encourage you to explore just a sampling of these distinctive offerings and imagine how they would enhance your series and excite your audience.

Melvin Kaplan

american string quartet ariel quartet dover quartet fine arts quartet leipzig string quartet meccorre quartet new orford string quartet pacifica quartet parisii quartet talich quartet ying quartet
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rachel barton pine hamao fujiwara maxim mogilevsky menahem pressler orion weiss jennifer grim

salzburg marionette theater mozart orchestra of new york

gerard schwarz, music director

gryphon trio hermitage piano trio new york chamber soloists new york chamber soloists orchestra pasquier trio

INNOVATE

Meccorre Quartet
The Meccorre Quartet draws on its rich Polish heritage to offer wonderfully informed performances of Penderecki, Lutosawski, and Szymanowski.

Talich Quartet

Ying Quartet Leipzig String Quartet

The Leipzig Quartet offers a choose-your-own-Beethoven program, in which the audience decides which early, middle, and late quartet will be performed. The Ying Quartet presents its Dim Sum program, with bite-sized works by ChineseAmerican composers paired with pieces by Mozart, Ravel, and Debussy.

The Fine Arts Quartet hearkens back to the golden age of performance with programs featuring works by Kreisler, Zimbalist, and Ysae.

Parisii Quartet
The Parisii Quartet is the only quartet in the world performing Pierre Boulezs Livre pour Quatuor in its entirety; their performance called Open Book is a unique presentation of the Livre paired with Bach and Beethoven.

Gryphon Trio
The Gryphon Trio performs multimedia programs with photographic projection paired with traditional repertoire, and a stunning program of love songs performed with a cabaret singer.

Fine Arts Quartet

The Talich Quartet performs its native Czech repertoire music by Jancek, Smetana, and others Dvork, Martinu, with a singular understanding borne from the Quartets fifty-year heritage.

Hermitage Piano Trio

The Hermitage Piano Trio proudly offers a program of pieces with ties to the Trios namesake, St. Petersburgs legendary Hermitage Museum, featuring Glinka, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky.

Ariel Quartet
cincinnati, ohio

American String Quartet

new york, new york

Dover Quartet
philadelphia, pa

Fine Arts Quartet

milwaukee, wi

February 6 22 2015

touring

Leipzig String Quartet

leipzig, germany

March 14 - 29 2015

touring

Meccorre Quartet
warsaw, poland

New Orford String Quartet

toronto + montreal, canada

Pacifica Quartet
bloomington, indiana

October 24 November 9 2014

touring

Parisii Quartet
paris, france

April 10 26 2015

touring

Talich Quartet
prague, czech republic

Ying Quartet
rochester, new york

CELEBRATE

Pacifica Quartet

20th Anniversary
Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and often-daring repertory choices, over the past two decades the Pacifica Quartet has gained international stature as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today. The Pacifica is the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University and the University of Chicago.

Parisii Quartet

30th Anniversary
Formed in 1983 by four prize-winning graduates of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, the Parisii Quartet has performed widely throughout Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Strad recently praised the Parisii for its matchless performances.

Talich Quartet

50th Anniversary
Recognized internationally as one of Europes finest chamber ensembles, the Talich Quartet represents the best of the extraordinary Czech musical tradition. The Quartet is now led by Jan Talich, Jr., the son of the Quartets founder.

American String Quartet

New Orford String Quartet

40th Anniversary

5th Anniversary

Comprised of the concertmasters and first cellist and violist of the Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, the New Orford String Quartet set out five years ago to re-imagine the landscape of chamber music, bringing North Americas top talent to this sensational group.

Considered one of the best quartets performing today, the American String Quartet has been Resident Quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York since 1984.

Hermitage Piano Trio

new york, new york

Gryphon Trio
toronto, canada

New York Chamber Soloists

new york, new york

New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra

new york, new york
with

Anton Kuerti, Menahem Pressler, Richard Stoltzman, Sharon Isbin, Rachel Barton Pine

Pasquier Trio
paris, france

October 12 26 2014

touring

COLLABORATE

Gryphon Trio
The Gryphon Trio joins Metropolitan Opera star and commanding bassbaritone Robert Pomakov in Mussorgskys Songs and Dances of Death.

Jennifer Grim
The flutist Jennifer Grim offers a wide-ranging and fascinating program from Bach to de Falla with the harpist Bridget Kibbey.

New Orford String Quartet

The New Orford String Quartet with Glenn Dicterow, concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, and the brilliant pianist Orion Weiss, together in Chaussons exquisite Concerto for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet.

Maxim Mogilevsky
Charismatic pianist Maxim Mogilevsky presents a tourde-force program featuring a choreographed performance of Tchaikovskys The Seasons with four principal dancers from major Russian ballet companies.

New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra

The New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra offers special concerto evenings with pianists Anton Kuerti and Menahem Pressler, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, guitarist Sharon Isbin, and violinist Rachel Barton Pine.

Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine and the leading alternate-styles cellist Mike Block perform Old World, New World, a journey through the western musical tradition from Bach to Bartok and from Appalachian folk songs to Led Zeppelin.

American String Quartet

The American String Quartet with Roberto and Andrs Daz perform a full program of sextets by Strauss, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.

Dover Quartet
Considered one of the most remarkably talented young string quartets ever to emerge at such a young age, the Dover performs together with its longtime mentor, the violist Roberto Daz.

Salzburg Marionette Theater

The Salzburg Marionette Theater and Orion Weiss offer a magical presentation of Debussys La Boite joujoux with the pianist performing on stage together with four masterful puppeteers.

Ariel Quartet
The Ariel Quartet performs Boccherini and Schubert quintets with superstar cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Mozart Orchestra of New York

new york. new york

Gerard Schwarz, Music Director

Salzburg Marionette Theater

salzburg, austria

EXPLORE
Beethoven Cycle
We offer the complete Beethoven quartets performed in six concerts, featuring three ensembles from North America and three from Europe. The cycle can be presented over the course of a single season or divided into two seasons with three concerts in each.

Pacifica Quartet
The Pacifica Quartet is the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, regularly offering the complete works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn,

New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra

The New York Chamber Soloists Orchestra, together with the extraordinary violinist Rachel Barton Pine, present the five effervescent Mozart violin concertos in a single evening.

Mozart Orchestra of New York Orion Weiss

Orion performs the complete Beethoven piano concertos in three subsequent evenings, concluding with the joyous Choral Fantasy The Mozart Orchestra of New York performs a dazzling program featuring the final three last Mozart symphonies under the direction of Gerard Schwarz.

Salzburg Marionette Theater

The Salzburg Marionette Theater presents the entire Wagner Ring Cycle trilogy condensed into a gripping 80-minute performance.

Fine Arts Quartet Leipzig String Quartet

The Leipzig String Quartet offers Schumanns three quartets in one moving performance. The Fine Arts Quartet offers Saint-Sans complete chamber works, including the two string quartets, piano quartet, piano quintet, and Barcarolle.

Orion Weiss
new york, new york

Rachel Barton Pine

chicago, illinois

Maxim Mogilevsky
st. petersburg, russia

Jennifer Grim
las vegas, nevada

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