Premiere of the Month: Michelle Barzel Ross’s new quartet for the Juilliard Quartet
2025-01-24T08:51:00
A new quartet remembers violist Roger Tapping
US violinist and composer Michelle Barzel Ross’s new string quartet, written for the Juilliard Quartet, is dedicated to the ensemble’s late violist Roger Tapping. It was commissioned two years ago by John Kongsgaard from Chamber Music in Napa Valley, where the quartet has played for decades – as has the Takács Quartet, which Tapping formerly played with. ‘The layers go deep,’ says Ross, who herself studied and played with Tapping…