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The Mendelssohn String Quartet has established a reputation as one of the most imaginative, vital and exciting quartets of its generation. The Quartet tours annually throughout North America with regular trips to foreign destinations.

After festival engagements including the Ravinia Festival, the Caramoor Festival and the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, France, the Mendelssohn Quartet travels from coast to coast each season and continues as Artist Faculty at the North Carolina School for the Arts, where they also perform several times each season. On the West Coast, the Quartet performs three concerts for the Music Guild in Los Angeles, at San Francisco State University and at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Eastern engagements include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Washington College Concert Series in Maryland with additional concerts in the Midwest and East.

The Quartet served for nine years as the Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard University and has performed at such distinguished venues as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London and the Tonhalle in Zurich. The resident quartet of the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival and formerly resident quartet of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Mendelssohn Quartet also makes frequent appearances at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and at the Ravinia, Aspen, and Saratoga Music Festivals. They were the first American ensemble invited to appear at the International Dialogues Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. The Quartet is often heard across the United States on Minnesota Public Radio's "Saint Paul Sunday". More information is available on the Quartet's website at www.mendelssohnquartet.com.

Miriam Fried, first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, has appeared with the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony. Recital tours have taken her to all of the major music centers in North America and to Brussels, London, Milan, Munich, Rome, Paris, Salzburg, Stockholm and Zurich. She has collaborated with such artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Garrick Ohlsson, Nathaniel Rosen and Paul Biss. She has been featured guest artist at Chamber Music East (Boston), the La Jolla Chamber Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival and the Naantali Festival in Finland.

Nicholas Mann has appeared on the Great Performers Series at Alice Tully Hall, with Chamber Music at the "Y", and has served as concertmaster of the Jupiter Symphony. After receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Juilliard School, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1983. His participation in summer festivals includes Ravinia, Aspen, San Francisco's Chamber Music West and Colorado's Baca Ensemble. Mr. Mann is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and a faculty member of the Juilliard School.

Violist Daniel Panner has performed at the Marlboro, Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals and has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri and Juilliard String Quartets. Formerly a member of the Whitman String Quartet, he currently teaches at the Juilliard School and the Queens College Conservatory of Music. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Musicians from Marlboro and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. An active performer of new music, Daniel has been heard on NPR's "Performance Today" both as soloist and chamber musician. He serves as principal viola of the New York City Opera Orchestra.

Marcy Rosen made her concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 18 and has since appeared with the Dallas Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Caramoor Festival Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Concordia Chamber Orchestra and Tokyo Symphony. In recital she has appeared in New York at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Merkin Concert Hall; in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks, the Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery, where she annually hosts a series entitled "Marcy Rosen and Friends". She is artist-in-residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Harvard University and tours annually throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe with the Mendelssohn String Quartet. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, she is currently Professor of Cello at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Mannes College.

Pianist Ursula Oppens has presented recitals at New York's 92nd Street Y, Town Hall and Metropolitan Museum of Art; at Chicago's Orchestra Hall; and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 1994 and 1997 she was presented in Carnegie Hall's Keyboard Virtuoso Series. She often collaborates with the Juilliard, Vermeer, Mendelssohn and Arditi String Quartets, and gives master classes at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and the Music Teachers National Association Conference. She received her Master's degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Rosina Lhevinne and Felix Galimir. She appears at Tanglewood, Aspen, Santa Fe and other festivals, and is currently Professor of Music at Northwestern University.