Attacca Quartet possesses "a musical maturity far beyond its members' years" – The Strad
Program
Anton Batagov: Different Things for piano, string quartet, double bass, and four voices (2017) (World Premiere)
L. van Beethoven: String Quartet op. 18 no. 6 (1800)
Anton Batagov, piano
Attacca Quartet
Kris Saebo, double bass
Linda Jones, soprano
Luthien Brackett, mezzo soprano
Andrew Fuchs, tenor
Steven Hrycelak, bass
This varied evening of music includes a World Premiere from influential post-minimalist Russian composer and pianist Anton Batagov, paired with a Beethoven masterwork performed by one of America’s premier young ensembles.
Anton Batagov’s Different Things was commissioned through BAC’s inaugural Cage Cunningham Fellowship.
Leadership support for music programming provided by the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and the Thompson Family Foundation.

Anton Batagov
Composer and pianist Anton Batagov is a graduate of the Gnessin School and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and prizewinner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1986) and other competitions. Batagov introduced music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass to Russian audiences.

Attacca Quartet
The internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet was formed at the Juilliard School in 2003 and made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. In the 2017-2018 season, the Attacca Quartet will be touring extensively throughout the United States and abroad.