Fred Sherry String Quartet

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The Fred Sherry String Quartet is an American classical string quartet.

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Biography and career

The quartet was founded by cellist Fred Sherry to perform and record the four string quartets of Arnold Schoenberg. He appears on all recordings by the quartet. The other members of the quartet have varied over time. They have included:

Mr. Sherry also formed a string sextet consisting of Leila Josefowicz and David Chan (violins), Paul Neubauer and Yura Lee (violas) and himself and Michael Nicolas (cellos) for the recording of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht .

The Fred Sherry String Quartet has also recorded Schoenberg's Concerto for String Quartet and the Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte for Voice, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 41 as well as Anton Webern's String Quartet, Op. 28 and 6 Bagatelles, Op. 9.

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