The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) presents Brentano String Quartet at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128, on Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Tickets start at $45 in-person and $25 to livestream and are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/brentano-string-quartet.

The Brentano String Quartet has been at the forefront of American chamber music for more than three decades, hailed for their ingenuity and interpretative style. The ensemble returns to The 92nd Street Y’s stage for their first performance since 2019, with music demonstrating their mastery across a broad range of the string quartet repertoire.

Brentano opens their program with Haydn’s C-Major Quartet, Op. 54, No. 2, featuring some of the composer’s most inspired quartet writing. Reflecting the group’s characteristically thoughtful programming, they follow Haydn with a modern masterwork – Bartók’s innovative String Quartet No. 4 – pulling the listener forward nearly 150 years, illustrating the evolution of the form. The program closes with a late Dvořák piece, the G-Major String Quartet, Op. 106.

“Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding” – The Independent (London)

Program:
BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
Mark Steinberg, violin
Serena Canin, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Nina Lee, cello

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2, Hob. III:57

BÉLA BARTÓK String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106, B. 192

With a career spanning over three decades, the Brentano Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism; and The Times (London) hails their “wonderful, selfless music-making.” Known for its unique sensibility, probing interpretive style, and original programming, the Quartet has performed across five continents in the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, thus establishing itself as one of the world’s preeminent ensembles.

Dedicated and highly sought after as educators, the Quartet has served as artists-in-residence at the Yale School of Music for the past decade. They also lead the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and appear regularly at the Taos School of Music. Previously, the Quartet served for fifteen years as ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University.

In the 2025/26 concert season, the Quartet will tour throughout North America, including concerts in New York, Boston, Chicago, Vancouver, Detroit, San Francisco, and Denver. They will perform the complete Mozart Quintets with violist Hsin-Yun Huang in Philadelphia. Further afield, they will tour Spain in November 2025 and elsewhere in Europe in March 2026.

Formed in 1992, The Brentano Quartet has received numerous accolades, including, in 1995, the prestigious Naumburg and Cleveland Quartet Awards. They have been privileged to collaborate with such artists as sopranos Jessye Norman and Dawn Upshaw; mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; as well as pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss. The Quartet has commissioned works from some of the most important composers of our time, including Bruce Adolphe, Matthew Aucoin, Gabriela Frank, Stephen Hartke, Vijay Iyer, Steven Mackey, Charles Wuorinen, Lei Liang, James MacMillan, and Melinda Wagner.

Notable recordings include Beethoven’s Quartet, Op. 131 (Aeon) which was featured in the 2012 film A Late Quartet starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken, and a 2017 live album with Joyce DiDonato, Into the Fire—Live from Wigmore Hall (Warner) Their most recent release features the K. 428 and K. 465 (“Dissonance”) Quartets of Mozart for the Azica label.

The Quartet is named for Antonie Brentano, whom many scholars consider to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,” the intended recipient of his famous love confession.

About The 92nd Street Y, New York: The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92NY offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y, New York is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92NY's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92NY.org.
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• December 10 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm

  December 10, 2025 07:30 to December 10, 2025 09:00
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