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The EUCLID QUARTET is set to grace Gualala Arts on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 4 pm as a part of the Gualala Arts Chamber Music Series. Tickets are $40 in advance, plus $5 day of, available at Gualala Arts, the Dolphin Gallery and online at GualalaArts.org
The EUCLID QUARTET enjoys one of the most highly regarded reputations of any chamber ensemble of its generation, with its members’ constituting a multinational mix: violinists Jameson Cooper and Aviva Hakanoglu, violist Luis Enrique Vargas, and cellist Justin Goldsmith. Captivating audiences and critics ranging from Carnegie Hall to school classrooms to radio and television broadcasts, the quartet consistently performs to enthusiastic acclaim throughout the country. Formed in Ohio in 1998, the Euclid Quartet takes its name from the famous Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, home to a wealth of renowned artistic and cultural institutions. Within three years, the ensemble was awarded the String Quartet Fellowship of the Aspen Music Festival, where it was invited to return for the subsequent summer’s concert season. The quartet was also invited to study with the Emerson String Quartet at the Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop. Highlights of the Euclid Quartet’s career include significant global recognition as the first American string quartet to be awarded a top prize at the prestigious Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Prior to its Japanese laurels, the quartet also won awards innumerous United States competitions, including the Hugo Kauder International Competition for String Quartets, The Carmel Chamber Music Competition and the Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. In2009, the Euclid Quartet was awarded the esteemed “American Masterpieces” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recently, alongside the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, the Euclid Quartet gave the world premiere of Quarter Days by Anna Clyne. This new concerto for string quartet and orchestra was commissioned by the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Active in the recording studio, the Euclid Quartet’s most recent CD release features short quartet works, made possible by the IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Production Grant. Their previous recording of Dvořák and Wynton Marsalis was praised by Strad magazine: “The members of the Euclid Quartet hurl themselves into the fray with alacrity, relishing the music’s invention with contagious wit and virtuosity.” About their complete Bartok quartets cycle, American Record Guide raved, “rarely has a group found such meaning and vision.”