The Composers String Quartet was a string quartet best known for performances of new works by contemporary composers, including quartets by Elliott Carter"The Carter Vogue", TIME Magazine, Feb. 10, 1975 and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet, who premiered the work in 1986."Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 4", Notes, 48:2 (Dec. 1991), p. 689. The group has performed quartets by more than 60 American composers, and has toured abroad extensively.New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The quartet was founded in 1965, and remained active until the late 1990s. During the early 1970s it was the quartet-in-residence at New England Conservatory, where it sponsored a biennial composition prize.New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians In 1975, the group became the quartet-in-residence at Columbia University, remaining at Columbia for at least two decades.Composers String Quartet to Perform at Miller, Columbia University Record, Oct. 28, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 8
Members Matthew Raimondi (d. 2024), violin Anahid Ajemian, violin Bernard Zaslav, viola (succeeded by Jean Dupouy, Jean Dane, and Ron Carbone; the quartet also recorded with violist Maureen Gallagher) Seymour Barab, cello (succeeded by Michael Rudiakov, Michael Haber and Mark Shuman)
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