Astrid Schween

@astridcello

Cellist of @juilliardstringquartet Cello faculty at the @juilliardschool 🏠 NYC
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It's a wrap! 5 concerts across Germany, Austria, and Greece and a week of recording in beautiful Pescara, Italy, the JSQ is returning home to NYC for our Alice Tully Hall Concert tomorrow, April 30, at 7:30 pm. Thank you to everyone who made this tour possible and we can't wait to share the fruits of our labor with you! Special thanks to @john_odradek , Shin, and Tommo at @odradekrecords for your incredible hospitality, our managers @hamplandrea and @philipkrippendorff (@for.artists.berlin ) for enabling a smooth and successful tour and @boulezsaal , Gewandhaus Leipzig, @musikverein.wien , and @megaron_athens for having us in your incredible concert halls. Also, insurmountable thanks to our amazing sound engineer, Leonie Wagner, for being with us for four long days of recording, lending your expertise, artistry, craft, and ear to collaborate on this most exciting recording project. Last but not least, an enormous heartfelt thank you to the one and only @lamichellle for gifting us with a transcendental work of music, "Birds on the Moon", which will be prominently featured in tomorrow's Alice Tully Hall Concert!
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18 days ago
Dress rehearsal in the prestigious Mendelssohn-Saal at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, on our Europe tour, rehearsing for tonight's concert featuring Beethoven's great op. 130 quartet and two quartets by Jörg Widmann!
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29 days ago
The JSQ is coming to Tuckamore! Join us for a performance at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's with music by Shostakovich, Bach, @lamichellle , and Beethoven. @tuckamoremusicfestival Link in Bio! Big thank you to @peoplessymphony for the performance footage and @abigelkralik for the photo.
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1 month ago
Happy 100th birthday to GyƑrgy Kurtág! One of the most profound and influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, we are very lucky to have several works of his written for string quartet. The brevity of his movements can be described as musical poetry, aphoristic and concise in nature. Here's the first movement of his latest string quartet: "6 Moments Musicaux" - (1) Invocatio (un fragment), from our Alice Tully Hall Concert this past December.
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2 months ago
Concert day shenanigans at @arizonachambermusic , Beethoven op. 132 for string quartet and squeaky footwear!
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2 months ago
JSQ Rehearsal Sessions - Michelle Ross "Birds on the Moon" Yesterday was the birthday of the late Roger Tapping, our beloved colleague and friend. It feels especially meaningful to be playing the NYC premiere of Michelle Ross' (@lamichellle ) "Birds on the Moon" (2024) tomorrow at @peoplessymphony , a quartet commissioned by the JSQ and dedicated to Roger. We are so grateful for Michelle's music that radiates earnest beauty, joy,celebration and the profound sense of connection that we all feel towards Roger and each other, and are looking forward to sharing this meaningful piece with our New York audience.
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3 months ago
#tb to a very special moment at Lincoln Center last month when we premiered a very special piece written by our very own Leonard Fu! Still smiling remembering that celebratory evening and what a wonderful time we had presenting Leonard’s new string quartet “Popular Dances.” Looking forward to premiering another of his works later this season! #staytuned👀 . . âœšđŸ’ƒđŸ»đŸ’ƒđŸŒđŸ’ƒđŸŸđŸ•șđŸ»âœš . . #lincolncenter #juilliardstringquartet #worldpremiere @aretazhulla @mollycarrviola @astridcello @violinard @juilliardstringquartet
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3 months ago
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN - come join us for our one-week String Quartet Seminar from June 8-14. Learn and perform alongside other talented and aspiring quartets and take your repertoire to the next level. Young professional and student quartets can apply now until February 1, 2026. For more info and application rules scan the QR code or find the link in bio. See you there!
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4 months ago
Repost @juilliardstringquartet ・・・ So many memorable collaborations with dear friends and colleagues in the past two weeks! It’s been a great pleasure and honor to be making music with all these wonderful musicias and human beings. Thank you to everyone who attended our concerts in Alice Tully Hall (@juilliardschool ), Spokane (@classics_northwest ), and Philadelphia (@pcmsconcerts )! It’s been a magnificent and eventful fall and we cannot wait to celebrate more music together in the spring - stay tuned! Photo 1: Schoenberg “VerklĂ€rte Nacht” in Alice Tully Hall with @catherinecho , violin and Marcy Rosen, cello Photo 2: Schubert Cello Quintet in Spokane, Washington with @zuillbailey , cello Photo 3: Franck Piano Quintet in Perelman Theater, Philadelphia with @marcandreham , piano
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4 months ago
Missed the concert last week or want to listen to it again? Watch the Violin Channel's stream tomorrow (Friday, December 12) at 7:30 pm EST - Link in Bio!
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5 months ago
Join us this Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7:30 pm in Alice Tully Hall for the JSQ NYC debut in the new formation - with a strikingly rich program spanning from Brahms' A minor string quartet to Kurtag's 6 moments musicaux and Schönberg's hauntingly beautiful VerklĂ€rte Nacht, not to forget a world premiere of our second violinist @violinard 's Popular Dances, written for this very occasion! Link to tickets and livestream in bio! Excited to see you there! đŸŽ¶đŸŽ»
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5 months ago
It’s been such a joy and pleasure getting to work with, perform for, and perform WITH the students of @tianjinjuilliardschool this week! Thank you and bravo to all those who played so beautifully for and with us. Looking forward to our next visit to this inspiring school. . . Until next time, China! We will miss you (and your delicious food!!!!)! . . #juilliardstringquartet #lifeontour #asia #tour #china #ontheroad #jsq #stringquartets #quartet #tianjin #wuhan #guangzhou #Juilliard #tianjinjuilliard
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6 months ago