Violist Emily Brandenburg joins the ensemble in autumn 2024, coinciding with the quartet’s 40th anniversary season
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The Cassatt Quartet has announced the appointment of Emily Brandenburg as its new violist. She succeeds Rosemary Nelis, who joined the group in 2022.
’Emily brings to the Cassatt Quartet her extraordinary experience as a lifelong chamber musician and an especially devoted quartet player; she balances a brilliant analytical mind with a rich, compelling, unusual voice that is deeply layered and beautiful,’ said cellist Gwen Krosnick on behalf of the quartet, which also comprises violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower.
’I am thrilled to be joining the Cassatt String Quartet as their new violist. I have admired the quartet for their artistry, and for their long standing commitment to new music, working hand-in-hand with a diverse array of composers,’ said Brandenburg. ’I look forward to beginning this chapter with them as they enter their 40th season and to all the years of memories and music making to come.’
Brandenburg holds degrees from Yale, New England Conservatory, and McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. She was previously artist-in-residence at the University of Evansville in Indiana where she was principal viola of Evansville Philharmonic and a member of the Eykamp String Quartet.
Formed in 1985, the Cassatt Quartet will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2024-25 with premieres by Joan Tower, Victoria Bond, Mari Kimura and Shirish Korde, all written for the group. The season includes a tour of Italy with guitarist Eliot Fisk, concerts across the US, teaching residencies at major universities and conservatories, its bi-annual Cassatt in the Basin residency in West Texas, and the Seal Bay Festival in Maine.
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