Manhattans Tap New Violinist
Violinist Curtis Macomber.
Photo: Christian Steiner
Former New World String Quartet violinist Curtis Macomber will join the venerable Manhattan String Quartet at the end of the 2010–11 season and replace founding member Eric Lewis. Macomber teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School, and he founded the Apollo Piano Trio. “When [the Manhattans and I] started talking about next year’s programs, I was the proverbial kid in a candy shop,” Macomber says.
At the behest of his teacher, Rachmael Weinstock, who formed the original MSQ in the 1930s, Lewis re-launched the MSQ in 1968 with violinist John McLeod, violist Andrew Berdahl, and cellist Judith Glyde. The ensemble—with Roy Lewis on second violin and John Dexter on viola—was later put on the musical map by a landmark mid-1980s tour of the Soviet Union—it was also the first American quartet to perform and record all of Shostakovich’s quartets. “The effort we put into the complete cycle of the Shostakovich quartets is a highlight of my tenure with the quartet,” Lewis says.
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