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The Lark Quartet (Maria Bachman and Deborah Buck, violins, Kathryn Lockwood, viola, and Astrid Schween, cello), now in its eighteenth concert season, enjoys a reputation as an ensemble of the highest artistic integrity and versatility. In the years since the quartet's prestigious international competition victories, the 1990 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and Russia's Shostakovich Competition Gold Medal in 1991 among them, the members of the Lark have created a dynamic ensemble portfolio which includes concert tours of America's great musical centers and tours in England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, China, Canada, and Mexico.

Recently, the Lark embarked on a Beethoven Quartet Cycle—together with the Beethoven Society and Hunter College, the quartet launched a series of six all-Beethoven concerts, to be performed over two years. The series began in October, 2003 with the first of Beethoven's quartets, Op. 18 no. 1 in F major, followed by a middle quartet, the "Serioso" Op. 95 and ending with a late quartet, Op. 132. The second and third concerts in the series are scheduled for February and April, 2004, and new Lark recordings of the Beethoven Quartets will be released by Arabesque Records.

The Lark's discography already comprises nearly one dozen CD recordings, which appear on the Arabesque, Decca/Argo, New World, MRI and Point labels. The quartet has enthusiastically commissioned many new works, as well as performing classical repertoire. Recent collaborations include premieres of new works by Peter Schickele, Jennifer Higdon and Aaron Jay Kernis. The Lark Quartet has served as ensemble-in-residence at Columbia University's Miller Theatre, Dartmouth College and Ohio University. Additional information is available on www.larkquartet.com.

Pianist Jon Klibonoff has established a versatile career as orchestra soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Klibonoff has been soloist with the Baltimore, Utah, Florida, New Orleans, Oakland, Syracuse, North Carolina, Richmond, and Denver Symphonies, the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Denver Chamber Orchestra. In recital, he has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum, the 92nd Street Y, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York; at Jordan Hall in Boston; for the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago; at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington; and at other major concert halls throughout the U.S. European recitals include the Opera Comique in Paris and the Villa Medici in Rome.