@stevenbankssaxophone is putting the classical saxophone front and center on his beautiful debut album “Cries, Sighs, and Dreams.”🎷
Banks was the first saxophonist to earn an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is joined by fellow AFCG honorees @doverquartet on the album's title track, which was written by Banks and inspired by composer Hector Berlioz’s reaction to hearing the saxophone for the first time. An impressed Berlioz wrote: “It cries, sighs, and dreams. It possesses a crescendo and can gradually diminish its sound until it is only an echo of an echo of an echo…”
Listen to the album now: lnk.to/EyqTGv (link in bio)
#AveryFisherArtists
Loving this Mendelssohn?! Hear the composer's final quartet Op. 80 along with quartets by Schubert and Bacewicz with the @doverquartet on 4/19 for as little as $10 for Students and Essential Workers! Or $25 Rear/Side seats or $30 Center/Front seats. For sale online and at the door.
Sunday, April 19 at 2 PM
The Town Hall, 123 W 43rd St
🎟 pscny.org/mystery26
#music #affordable #nyc #concerts
While watching a composer perform and record his own work, I witnessed interpretation giving way to origin. Steven Banks isn’t just playing the music—he’s releasing it! Cries, Sighs and Dreams - coming soon : May 8,2026. #doverquartet
🥨Can't have Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday (born this day, March 21, 1685, according to the Julian calendar) without the one and only @bryanlee_violin 's signature g minor sonata!
*NB: This video is intended in a lighthearted spirit, with some exaggeration and an intentional alteration of the notes.
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#hbd #bach #soloviolin #hesback #humor
GRAMMY nominated. 🎶 Coming to Joplin.
The internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet, nominated for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, will perform right here in our community for a FREE concert.
📍 First Presbyterian Church | Joplin
🗓 March 19 | 7:00 PM
🎟 Free admission. No tickets required.
World-class music. Small-town access.
This is what community arts support makes possible.
Join us. Let’s fill the room. 🎻 @doverquartet@doverquartet
Chamber Music Monterey Bay's next concert of the 2025/26 season is just around the corner - and it is truly not to be missed! 🎻
Mark your calendars for the Dover Quartet live at the Sunset Cultural Center in Carmel on Saturday, March 28, 2026.
This compelling performance will feature:
🎻 Jessie Montgomery - Strum (2006)
✨️ Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 27 in D Major, op.20 no. 4 (1772)
🎵 Karol Szymanowski - String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, op.37 (1917)
🎶 Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, op.80 (1847)
Tickets and more info can be found by calling (831) 625-2212 or at the link in our bio. 🔗
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Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine and “the next Guarneri Quartet” by the Chicago Tribune, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its honors include the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award. The Dover Quartet is the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music and Quartet in Residence at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music.
😮😠😏“What, a blizzard? Yikes! Okay, we can still slay."
Our final week of the February tour wrapped up with a wonderful residency at Carnegie Mellon @cmumusic – working with students and performing the Dvořák Piano Quintet with Dimitri Papadimitriou!
Then Richmond, VA– and a drive home straight into the winter storm. Some made it back to Philly, some rerouted through DC… and some of us stayed a little longer than planned.
Ah, winter touring... always an adventure!
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#YouHeardThemHereFirst |
Highly acclaimed ensemble the #DoverQuartet made its Hong Kong #debut at the 2019 Beare’s Premiere Music Festival, and returned for the 2025 Recital Series with Dvořák’s beloved String Quartet No. 12, “American”.
You heard them here first, at Premiere Performances 🪽
最受歡迎的室內樂團之一，多佛四重奏於2019年比爾斯飛躍演奏音樂節首次亮相香港，並於2025年演奏系列中載譽回歸，呈獻德伏扎克備受喜愛的第十二弦樂四重奏，作品96，《美國》。
飛躍之星，首演於此🪽
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Upcoming Concerts with Premiere Performances 更多飛躍演奏音樂會
𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐎𝐭𝐭 | 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬
📅 1 Apr 2026 (Wed)
𝐊𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐯
📅 13 Apr 2026 (Mon)
🪽 Hong Kong Recital Debut
𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐧: 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐞
📅 12 May 2026 (Tue)
🪽 Hong Kong Debut
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠: 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥, 𝐑𝐡𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐦 & 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬
📅 17 May 2026 (Sun)
🪽 Hong Kong Recital Debut
𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨: 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲
📅 8 June 2026 (Mon)
🎟️ 立即購票 Book now at pphk.org
📒First week of our February tour in the books!
From Montréal to NYC to Philly to Chicago — such memorable concerts (it was so special to bring @jerodtate and @pura._fe 's music to life in Zankel Hall @carnegiehall ! Thank you to @wqxr_classical for streaming it live) , plus the bonus of doing what we love offstage too: teaching at @curtisinstitute and it was wonderful to reconnect with the students at @bienenschoolnu 🥰
Concert in Pittsburgh tonight, where we are also looking forward to working with the students at @cmumusic !
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🎻 A full day with the Dover Quartet at CMU!
The two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet—hailed by BBC Music Magazine as one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years—returns to campus for a special masterclass and evening performance.
✨ Masterclass
🗓 Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 1:00–3:00 PM
📍 Alumni Concert Hall, College of Fine Arts
🎶 Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series Performance
🗓 Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 7:30–9:30 PM
📍 Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
Artists
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Julianne Lee, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
with Dimitri Papadimitriou, piano
Program
Schubert – String Quartet No. 11 in E major, D.353
Bacewicz – String Quartet No. 4
Dvořák – Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81
From international tours and major commissions to award-winning recordings, the Dover Quartet continues to shape the future of chamber music. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from them in the afternoon and experience their artistry live in the evening.
This performance is made possible by Dr. Owen Cantor.
The @doverquartet brings @jerodtate ’s “Abokkoli’ Taloowa’” (“Woodland Songs”) to life!
Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the piece draws from Tate’s Chickasaw heritage, translating traditional Native vocal music into a modern string quartet inspired by woodland animals from his Southeastern homelands. It weaves together Chickasaw melodies, rhythms, and musical structures throughout—sometimes emerging with clarity, sometimes absorbed into the quartet’s texture.
Don’t miss the work’s New York premiere tonight as part of our “United in Sound: America at 250” festival. Limited tickets remain 👉 carnegiehall.org
