Arguably the finest string quartet playing in America today, The Brentano Quartet certainly has the awards and lengthy career to merit such an acknowledgement. Since its formation in 1992, they have performed in nearly every major concert hall throughout the world including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and the Sydney Opera House.

The very first Cleveland Quartet Award winner joins pianist Jonathan Biss, who has been cited as a “virtuoso and poetic pianist of the first order” (Chicago Sun Times), in a performance of Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A minor, the composer’s response to the tragedy of WWI with a work of great beauty and tenderness.