The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents the Leonkoro Quartet on Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 7:30pm ET at the Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center and streaming online. Tickets start at $40 for in-person and $25 for online streaming. Tickets are available at https://www.92ny.org/event/leonkoro-quartet. Online streaming is also available for 72 hours following the performance.

The dynamic young Leonkoro Quartet has skyrocketed to prominence following multiple international competition wins to become one of the chamber music world’s most exciting new ensembles, with admirers that include the great Alfred Brendel – a frequent collaborator. Their NYC debut features a program showcasing the freshness, daring, and vitality that they bring to music from Beethoven to Caroline Shaw.

LEONKORO STRING QUARTET
Jonathan Schwarz, violin; Amelie Wallner, violin; Mayu Konoe, viola; Lukas Schwarz, cello

Program Details
CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte
HINDEMITH String Quartet No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 10
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132

LEONKORO QUARTET
“The Leonkoro Quartet… has an enormous stage presence, glows for the music, takes full risks and amazes with its empathy for the respective sound of the pieces” (Frankfurter Allgemeine)

The quartet, founded in Berlin in 2019, is framed by brothers Jonathan and Lukas Schwarz on first violin and cello, while the middle voices are formed by Amelie Wallner on second violin and Mayu Konoe on viola. The ensemble takes their name from the Esperanto for “lionheart.”

Beginning in 2022, Leonkoro Quartet garnered a series of prestigious accolades, solidifying their place among the most celebrated ensembles of their generation. They received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize, a biennial award recognizing outstanding string quartets, and triumphed at the International String Quartet Competition held at London's Wigmore Hall, earning 1st prize and a collection of nine special awards. The quartet also took first prize at the Concours International de Quatuor à Bordeaux, along with the Audience Prize and the Young Audience Prize. They were invited to join the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists program, participating from 2022 to 2024. Other honors include the Merito String Quartet Award, the Young Talent Award of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust award

Alongside their academic pursuits in chamber music under the tutelage of Heime Müller (formerly of the Artemis Quartet) at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, the quartet has been studying with Günter Pichler (founding member of the Alban Berg Quartet) at the Chamber Music Institute of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía Madrid since 2020.

The ensemble's first album featuring Maurice Ravel's String Quartet and Robert Schumann's String Quartet Op. 41 No. 3, was released in 2023 by Mirare and won the Choc de Classica l'année.

Following triumphant debuts in major international concert series and festivals last season, the quartet makes their debut at many more in the current season, including at the Salzburg Festival, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Bozar Brussels and the Konzerthaus Dortmund. In addition, the quartet will tour North America for the first time with concerts in New York City, Boston, Montreal, Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco, to name a few.

New 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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• March 29 from 7:30 to 9:00 pm

  March 29, 2025 07:30 to March 29, 2025 09:00
• 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

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