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Audubon Quartet

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Active until
  
2011

Active from
  
1974

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Members
  
Doris Lederer, David Ehrlich, Clyde Thomas Shaw, David Salness

Albums
  
Music for Oboe & Strings

Record labels
  
Telarc International Corporation, Centaur Records, RCA Victor Red Seal

Similar
  
PDQ Bach, Vermeer Quartet, Lydia Artymiw, Beth Levin, Antonín Dvořák

Audubon Quartet was a string quartet based in Winchester, Virginia. Its members included cellist and founder C. Tom Shaw, violist Doris Lederer, and violinists Ellen Jewett and Akemi Takayama. The quartet was formerly the resident quartet of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and subsequently served as quartet in residence at the Shenandoah Conservatory Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

The Audubon Quartet disbanded in 2011.

The Audubon Quartet has enjoyed international recognition including top prizes at:

  • The International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France (1977)
  • The String Quartet Competition at the Festival Villa Lobos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1977)
  • The International String Quartet Competition in Portsmouth, England (1979)
  • They were the first American string quartet ever to win a first prize in an international string quartet competition.

    Songs

    Ohlas Pisni - B 152 : No 1 I Know That On My LoveDvorak - A: Echo Of Songs (Arr Of Cypresses For String Quartet) / String Quartet No 13 (Audubon Quartet) · 1999
    Ohlas Pisni - B 152 : No 4 Never Will Love Lead UsDvorak - A: Echo Of Songs (Arr Of Cypresses For String Quartet) / String Quartet No 13 (Audubon Quartet) · 1999
    Ohlas Pisni - B 152 : No 3 When Thy Sweet GlancesDvorak - A: Echo Of Songs (Arr Of Cypresses For String Quartet) / String Quartet No 13 (Audubon Quartet) · 1999

    References

    Audubon Quartet Wikipedia