The Dover Quartet is prominently featured in Classical Voice North America as a string quartet poised to take up the mantle of the Emerson Quartet as one of the world’s preeminent string quartets.

The two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet, the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, welcomes Julianne Lee as its new violist.

After the critically acclaimed release of the opus 18 quartets, the Dover Quartet follows this up with the recent release of the Middle quartets by Beethoven.

The Dover Quartet is thrilled to receive its first GRAMMY nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in recognition of its recording, The Schumann Quartets.

Embarking on a three year project recording all the iconic Beethoven quartets, the Dover Quartet has just released the first installment featuring all six opus 18 string quartets from Beethoven’s early period through Cedille Records.

In an innovative residency combining three crucial aspects for a modern chamber music career, the Dover Quartet joins the faculty of their alma mater, The Curtis Institute of Music, with a unique emphasis on technology, teaching world-class students, and continuing a robust touring schedule.

The streaming of Strings Attached, the documentary about the internationally acclaimed Dover Quartet, was the #1 viewed film at the Martha's Vineyard Filmusic Fest, and its availability has been extended for 2 more weeks! Don't miss this limited engagement.

The Dover Quartet is featured in a new documentary, Strings Attached, directed by filmmaker Bruce Broder. It premiered at the Martha’s Vineyard Filmusic Festival from June 20-July 1, 2020.

To learn more about Strings Attached and how you can see it, go to the film’s website, StringsAttachedMovie.com.

The Dover’s new Schumann CD was released on Azica Records in October 2019, comprising Schumann’s three string quartets. Written in 1842, the three quartets mark the apotheosis of Schumann’s development as a composer.

Never one to miss a great party, the Dover Quartet took a three-day break from annual duties at the Artosphere Festival – one of their longest-standing supporters – and jetted to London last weekend, where they took part in the Wigmore Hall’s 70th-birthday celebration of their dear friend and collaborator Emanuel Ax.

The intrepid Dover Quartet made its Australian debut in April, a trip that was made complete by the feeding of kangaroos in Tasmania! The four-day Musica Viva spectacular in Sydney featured dozens of fabulous musicians, including the Dover’s longtime collaborator Edgar Meyer.

Earlier this month the Dover Quartet joined Jonathan Biss, Yefim Bronfman, and the star himself in three concerts honoring the legendary Leon Fleisher. The programs – performed at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia’s Perelman Hall, and the Kennedy Center – included Fleisher’s deeply felt Sheep May Safely Graze as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 with the Dover.

On the heels of an extensive German tour, the Dover Quartet – “one of the world’s finest young string quartets” (New Yorker) – comes back to New York City for a weekend of back-to-back appearances.

In 2018-2019, The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center is joined by the Dover Quartet, the Center’s new Quartet-in-Residence.

This Sunday, January 21, the Dover Quartet – “one of the world’s finest young string quartets” (New Yorker) – joins Janine Jansen and Jean-Yves Thibaudet at New York’s Carnegie Hall for Chausson’s haunting yet rarely programmed Concerto in D for violin, piano, and string quartet.

Following the October release of the best-selling albumVoices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945 – which broke the top ten on Billboard’s traditional classical chart – the Cleveland Quartet Award- and Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning Dover Quartet stops in New York City on November 18 for a Peoples’ Symphony concert, featuring World War II-era music from the album and Romantic quartets by Mendelssohn and Schumann.

The Dover Quartet will give an hour-long benefit concert in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, September 23 at 4pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center (MLK PAC).

The Dover Quartet launches the season with the release on October 13 of its second recording on the Cedille label. Titled Voices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945, the new album takes listeners on a powerful, often harrowing, journey through three searing works written during World War II, by Viktor Ullmann, Shostakovich, and Simon Laks, all three of whom also feature in the Dovers’ full 2017-18 concert lineup.

“I’ll see you again in 25 years,” said Laura Palmer to Agent Dale Cooper in the final episode of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. This May, just over a quarter-century later, fans can hope to find that promise fulfilled, when the surreal cult TV series finally returns to the small screen.

The Dover Quartet has been named as the recipient of a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of classical music’s most prestigious awards. Chosen for their outstanding artistry, the Dovers will be honored today (Wednesday, March 15) at WQXR’s Greene Space, where – being currently on tour in Europe – they will be represented by a short video excerpt.