Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will feature the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet to complement the traveling exhibition, “Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough, and the Golden Age of
Painting in Europe.”
With a first place win at the Seventh Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011 among their many awards, the Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles.
The program will include selections by Franz Joseph Haydn and others, along with a discussion of the themes the visual and musical art share with the “Golden Age” exhibition. Organized by the Speed
Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, the exhibition features 70 works of art created during the 17th through early 19th centuries and illustrates a period of great political, economic, scientific and religious transformations.
The Attacca Quartet is now in its 11th season, beginning at Juilliard School in 2003. It is comprised of violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Luke Fleming and cellist Andrew Yee.
They made their professional debut in 2007 as a part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and have appeared there on numerous occasions. They are honored with the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial
Chamber Music Award, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association, and the Lotos Prize in the Arts. The quartet served as the Julliard Graduate Resident String Quartet from 2011-13 and was recently named the Quartet in Residence for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
The lunchtime performance at the art museum is free and open to the public; however, the museum is recommending a $5 donation for admission to the exhibition, “Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough,
and the Golden Age of Painting in Europe.” For more information about the museum, go to jcsm.auburn.edu or call 334-844-1484.
