Past Competitions

Biographies of the Quartets

Praised by the Ann Arbor News for the ‘poetry and mathematics’ of their playing, the Euclid Quartet is a dynamic young ensemble known for the warmth and beauty of their sound. Numerous performances throughout the United States and Canada have earned the quartet significant recognition, including top prizes at the Carmel Chamber Music Competition and the Chamber Music Yellow Springs competition. For the summers of 2002 and 2003 they were one of three ensembles selected worldwide to participate as a fellowship quartet at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. They have appeared at the Kent/Blossom (Ohio) and Orford (Québec) music festivals, and at the Audubon Quartet Seminar in Virginia. The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (Detroit, Michigan) presented them in several performances, some in collaboration with with Joseph Silverstein. They have also performed at Carnegie Hall as part of a series on the Bartók string quartets.

The Euclid Quartet is dedicated to performing new music, and has commissioned works from several noted young composers, including Armando Bayolo, James Leatherbarrow, and Evan Rapport. They have given master classes at Eastern Michigan University, Morningside College, Reed College, and high schools with highly regarded music programs across the state of Iowa. In 2001, the quartet was appointed Resident String Quartet of the Sioux City Symphony and faculty members at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. As part of their residency, the quartet members teach students of all levels, coach chamber music, and have written and presented several highly successful educational presentations for children.

Formed in Ohio in 1998, the quartet takes its name from the famous Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, home to a wealth of artistic and cultural institutions. The quartet has had the privilege of working with many distinguished musicians, including members of the American, Audubon, Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, LaSalle, Miami, and Takacs quartets.

Formed in Cleveland in 2001, the Boston-based Jupiter Quartet has performed across the United States and abroad. Their interpretations have received warm reviews at a number of respected chamber music series, including the Tri-County Emerging Artists Concerts, Honest Brook Music Festival, Caramoor Festival, and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.They have played on some of the world’s most spectacular chamber music halls, such as London’s Wigmore Hall and Boston’s Jordan Hall. Upcoming engagements include a recital at Weill Hall in New York and an appearance at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C.

In 2003, the Jupiter Quartet received Second Prize at the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Next year, they will enter the New England Conservatory as the school’s fellowship quartet. In past summers, the quartet has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and the Yellow Barn Music Festival.

The Jupiter Quartet has had the good fortune to work closely with some of the most inspiring minds of the chamber music world, including Shmuel Ashkenazi, Timothy Eddy, Earl Carlyss, James Dunham, Paul Katz, Martha Katz, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Lucy Stoltzman, and Donald Weilerstein. In particular, their work with Henry Meyer, former violinist of the renowned LaSalle Quartet, led to an invitation to perform on a series of concerts in Frankfurt, Weikersheim, and Aub, Germany.

The Jupiter Quartet has a strong commitment to community outreach and the development of future classical music audiences. They have performed in children’s concerts throughout the Boston area and in Vermont during the summertime.

The quartet’s members hold degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, and the New England Conservatory. All have devoted their lives to chamber music from an early age. Violinist Meg Freivogel and her sister, Liz, have played quartets together since they were in elementary school, along with their two brothers. Before forming the Jupiter Quartet, all members attended numerous chamber music festivals, including the Taos School of Music, the Banff Centre, Isaac Stern’s Seminar at Carnegie Hall, the Yellow Barn Festival, and the Quartet Program. Their love of chamber music continues, on a professional level, with their devotion to the Jupiter Quartet.

The Hyperion String Quartet is an exciting talent emerging within the field of chamber music. Since their formation in 1999 at the Eastman School of Music, they have received numerous honors and opportunities. They have been selected for the Kilbourn Hall Honors Chamber Music Recital numerous times, and have participated in several music festivals and seminars, including the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar at Lincoln Center, Quartetfest at Wilfrid Laurier University with the Penderecki Quartet, and the Lake Tahoe Summer Chamber Music Academy with the Miró Quartet. In 2002, the quartet was the recipient of the Russell award given at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, and in 2004 returned to the Coleman competition and won the Coleman-Barstow Award for Strings. They have also been the young artists-in-residence at the Strings in the Mountains Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The Quartet has coached with Antonio Lysy, Robert Mann, Christopher Rowland, and Zvi Zeitlin, as well as members of the Cavani, Chester, Colorado, Guarneri, Juilliard and Tokyo string quartets. They have also worked extensively with the Miami, Miró, Penderecki and Ying quartets.

The Quartet is highly dedicated to music education. In addition to their concert performances, they have been artists-in-residence for Young Audiences of Rochester, an organization that promotes education and an appreciation of the arts through performances and presentations for area schools. They have also participated in the New Performing Arts Kentucky Residency, a program that gave them the opportunity to teach chamber music to students of all ages across that state.

The members of the Hyperion String Quartet are currently the graduate assistants to the Miami String Quartet at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

2nd Annual 2005 International
Hugo Kauder Music Competition
Part 1: For String Quartets
Part 2: For French Horn

June 16-18, 2005
at the Yale University School of Music

SPONSORED BY
Hugo Kauder Society Inc.
in association with the Yale University School of Music
and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

DATE & LOCATION
Yale University - Sprague Memorial Hall
New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
Thursday, June 16, 2005 - Final Round
Friday, June 17, 2005 - Final Round
Saturday, June 18, 2005 - Awards Concert

PRIZES

Part 1 (string quartets):
First Prize: $8,000 and a concert appearance in New York City
Second Prize: $4,000

Part 2 (horn)
First Prize: $4,000 and a concert appearance in New York City

JUDGES

Joseph Anderer
Acting Prinicpal Horn, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Pamela Frank
violin soloist and chamber musician

Aldo Parisot
Professor of Cello, Yale University, Connecticut

ELIGIBILITY
Musicians worldwide are eligible to apply provided the horn
player’s age OR the average age of the applying quartet on
April 1, 2005 is 35 years maximum. Judges, members of the
Society’s board, and their families are not eligible.

CONTACT
For Information and Assistance, please contact the Hugo
Kauder Society Inc.:

HUGO KAUDER SOCIETY
421 HUMPHREY ST
NEW HAVEN, CT 06511