This spring, the Dover Quartet – praised by the Washington Post for “impeccable refinement” – performs across Austria, Germany and Switzerland, making debuts on every stop of their eleven-city tour, with a varying program that features Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Smetana, Britten, Barber, and two contemporary composers the group has consistently championed: David Ludwig and Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw.

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Earlier this fall, the Dover Quartet made its recording debut with Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart on the Cedille label. Named “CD of the Week” by Classical Radio Boston, the album scored five-star reviews from Audiophile Audition and Fanfare’s Jerry Dubins, who heralded it as “music-making not of the highest order but of the next order,” and concluded: “How blessed we are to be living in a golden age of string playing.

The Dover Quartet – the group the New Yorker calls “the young American quartet of the moment” – makes its recording debut Friday, Oct 14 with the release of Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart on the Cedille label.

Fresh from a banner season, the Dover Quartet juggernaut gathers steam in 2016-17, with several notable firsts ahead for the group the New Yorker calls “the young American quartet of the moment.”

To crown a banner season highlighted by the group’s Carnegie Hall debut and Cleveland Quartet Award win, the Dover Quartet looks forward to an intensive summer on the U.S. festival circuit.

“For a musician, performing at Carnegie hall is every bit as exciting – and daunting – as one would imagine. We’ve been fortunate enough in the past few years to perform in some incredible venues all over the world, and yet there’s still an aura around Carnegie that is truly unique; as we move toward the performance, we feel an anticipation that combines immense pride and gratitude with the sobering sense of responsibility: not only to do our best, but to show who we are.”

Recognized as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker), The Dover Quartet recently added the Hunt Family Award – one of the inaugural Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards – to a string of honors that already includes the Cleveland Quartet Award, a sweep of the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and top prizes at the Fischoff and Wigmore Hall International competitions.

In this newly founded annual award, Lincoln Center nominates an artist of exceptional merit to be recognized at the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards.

Chamber Music America (CMA) announced today that the Dover Quartet has been selected to receive the Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons.

“The young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker)

“The Dover Quartet’s Kennedy Center debut shows why they should be on must-hear list…..a triumph,” (Washington Post)

Curtis Performs presents the Dover Quartet playing "The Pale Blue Dot", a new work by David Ludwig, written exclusively for them through the Caramoor Festival.

The masterpiece in its original form, from the composer's String Quartet Op. 11.