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Quartet San Francisco is a non-traditional and eclectic string quartet led by violinist Jeremy Cohen. The group played their first concert in 2001 and has recorded four albums. Playing a wide range of music genres from jazz to blues, tango to swing, and funk to pop, the group challenges the traditional classical music foundation of the string quartet. Quartet San Francisco won a tango music competition in New York in 2004, and their albums have been nominated five times for Grammy Awards: three in the Best Classical Crossover Album category, and two for Best Engineered Album, Classical.〔 ==Members== Quartet leader and violinist Jeremy Cohen founded the Quartet San Francisco as a forum to explore a multitude of musical styles that were important to him but were not being exercised in his work with other ensembles such as Turtle Island Quartet. Oakland-born-and-bred Cohen produces the quartet's albums on his own label, Violin Jazz. Classically trained under Itzhak Perlman and Anne Crowden, Cohen's playing style shows influences from violinists Fritz Kreisler, Joe Venuti and Eddie South.〔(Jeremy Cohen, violin. ) Biographies, Quartet San Francisco. Accessed on February 12, 2010.〕 Alisa Rose joined Quartet San Francisco in 2009. Hailing from Wisconsin, she has played in numerous bluegrass groups and at festivals such as Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco and the Strawberry Music Festival in Yosemite. As a music educator, she is the director of a San Francisco Conservatory of Music program at a city elementary school, and has written an instructional book aimed at music students aged seven to ten years old.〔(Alisa Rose, violin. ) Biographies, Quartet San Francisco. Accessed on February 12, 2010.〕 Keith Lawrence, member since March 2008, began learning viola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 11, then sought undergraduate study at Oberlin Conservatory, taking instruction from Peter Slowik and Roger Chase. He attended the Henry Mancini Institute three years during his time at Oberlin. Until 2007, Lawrence undertook graduate studies at the DePaul University School of Music as a student of Rami Solomonow.〔(Keith Lawrence, viola. ) Biographies, Quartet San Francisco. Accessed on February 12, 2010.〕 Michelle Djokic, cellist for the quartet, was a founder of Concordia Chamber Players in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2004. She served as assistant principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony for two seasons. She joined the New Century Chamber Orchestra in 2008. She has appeared on stage and in the studio many times as a cello soloist, including Carnegie Hall with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and as accompanist to violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.〔(Michelle Djokic, cello. ) Biographies, Quartet San Francisco. Accessed on February 12, 2010.〕 Djokic married professional squash athlete Mark Talbott in May 1989 after the two met aboard an airliner, on which Djokic was flying with her 1686 Francesco Gofriller cello, which has its own frequent flier account with US Airways. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quartet San Francisco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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