Ladies' Morning Music Club Presents the Leonkoro Quartet

LEONKORO QUARTET, strings

Jonathan Schwarz and Amelie Wallner -violins

Mayu Konoe -viola, Lukas Schwarz -cello

The Leonkoro Quartet, founded in Berlin in 2019, takes its name from the Esperanto words meaning “lion” and “heart,” and from a children’s book by Astrid Lindgren about two brothers (the Leonkoro’s first violinist and cellist are brothers). The Quartet came to international attention in mid-2021 when, as the youngest ensemble participating, it won second prize (no first prize was offered that year) and the Audience Prize at the renowned Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition. In 2022, barely three years after it was founded, the Quartet won a whole host of prizes and awards, one after the other. Starting in March, it received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize. Next month, the ensemble collected not only first prize but nine additional special prizes at the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, where it was again the youngest quartet competing. In May it won the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition as well as the Audience Prize. In November the Quartet received the MERITO Award. Also that year the Leonkoro Quartet was invited to join the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists program for a two-year period. As if all this weren’t enough to distinguish this young group, all but the cellist perform standing. Notable mentors include members of the Artemis Quartet, Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet, and pianist Alfred Brendel with whom the Quartet maintains a regular collaboration. LMMC debut.

Subscriptions for the 10-concert series are $350, and $100 for students 26 years and under and single tickets are available at $60 and $25 for students.

Sept. 8       CALIDORE STRING QUARTET, strings
Sept. 29     GEORGE LI, piano
Oct. 20       BLAKE POULIOT, violin
Nov. 10      BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, piano
Dec. 1        VICTOR JULIEN-LAFERRIÈRE, cello
Jan. 26       KARINA GAUVIN, soprano
Feb. 23       GOLDMUND QUARTETT, strings
Mar. 16       FAURÉ QUARTETT, piano quartet
Apr. 6         LEONKORO QUARTET, strings
Apr. 27       TRIO WANDERER, piano trio

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