Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

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The "stylish, open-minded and adventurous" (The Guardian) DUDOK QUARTET AMSTERDAM continues our 61st season on Wednesday, February 3, 2027, at Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus. Recipients of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and winners of multiple international competitions, the Amsterdam-based quartet has performed at the Royal Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, and the BBC Proms, and is celebrated for their distinctive approach to both historical and contemporary repertoire.

Concert details:
- Estimated duration: 1 hour and 55 minutes
- Brief welcome remarks
- Arrangements by the Dudok Quartet
- All timings are approximate. Program and artists subject to change.

Program:
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22 — 36 min
- Intermission — 15 min
- Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 — 33 min

Pre-concert talk:
- A free Pre-Concert Talk is offered at 6:30 p.m. before the performance.

Featured performers:
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam has forged a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile quartets of its generation. With its ethos of "sharing the heart of music", the quartet believes that chamber music is an act of friendship and play to be shared directly with audiences, and is committed to crafting unique and eclectic programmes that engage listeners in imaginative ways.

The players’ curiosity reaches to both the past and future: they perform music written pre-1900 with period-specific historic instrument set-ups, as well as playing and commissioning new music. This approach leads to a wide range of core repertoire, from Gesualdo and Josquin to Brahms, Shostakovich and Messiaen. They often collaborate with composers such as Joey Roukens, Bushra El-Turk, Celia Swart, Peter Vigh and Theo Loevendie, and worked closely with Kaija Saariaho, including on the world premiere of her opera Only the Sound Remains in 2016.

Recent highlights include projects such as John Adams’ Absolute Jest and Steve Reich’s Different Trains (for which they made a new recording of the accompanying tape track). Their typical programmes range from Ligeti, Shostakovich and Weinberg to Mendelssohn, Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven, and they perform their own arrangements of pieces including Gesualdo, Josquin, Brahms and Shostakovich.

Committed to reaching new audiences, they set up a festival in Kampen and, for their Signature Sessions, made string-quartet arrangements of well-known music, recording them for YouTube and sharing the scores online. They also work beyond the borders of music, for example in the dance show La Petite Poucette at Luxembourg Philharmonie in 2021.

The group has performed at many major European venues and festivals and made their Australian debut in 2024. Their recording catalogue spans the Renaissance to 20th and 21st century works, and recent releases have been praised by the press. The album What Remains (works by Joey Roukens, Steve Reich and Messiaen) was praised by The Guardian as "finely judged and excellently delivered." A double album featuring Tchaikovsky’s String Quartets and Dudok’s arrangements of The Seasons was named Record of the Week on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review and received outstanding reviews in BBC Music Magazine and The Strad.

Having first met as members of the Ricciotti Ensemble, the quartet takes its name from Dutch architect Willem Marinus Dudok (1884–1974). The quartet performs on violins by Francesco Goffriller and Vincenzo Panormo, a viola by Jean Baptiste Lefèbvre (on loan from the Dutch Musical Instrument Foundation), and a cello by Hendrik Jacobs (made in 1700).