Takács Quartet
The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its fifty-first season. Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about the 2025-2026 season that features varied projects including a new work written for them by Clarice Assad, commissioned by a consortium of North American concert presenters. For Hyperion Records the Takács recently released ‘Flow’ by Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and an album with pianist Marc Andre Hamelin featuring quintets by Florence Price and Antonín Dvořák.
The Takács maintains a busy international touring schedule. In August 2025 the ensemble performs in New Zealand, and in Australia where the centerpiece of a tour for Musica Viva is a new work by Australian composer Cathy Milliken, inspired by Bertholt Brecht’s ‘Sonnet of an Emigrant’, narrated by Angie Milliken. As Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group will perform and record for Hyperion two viola quintets by Mozart with violist Timothy Ridout. During the season the ensemble will play at other prestigious European series including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus Berlin, and in Rome, Florence and Bologna.
The group’s North American engagements will include concerts in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Berkeley, Portland, and at Duke University and Middlebury College, Vermont.
The members of the Takács are Artists in Residence at the University of Colorado, and during the summer months join the faculty at the Music Academy of the West, running an intensive quartet seminar there. The ensemble will also begin a new relationship as Visiting Artists at the University of Maryland.
