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The Cleveland Quartet

Band, 1969-1995 US
Classical

The Cleveland Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1969 by violinist Donald Weilerstein, at the time an instructor at the Cleveland Institute of Music, whose director Victor Babin had secured funding for an in-resident quartet (the institute's first) to be headed by Weilerstein. Weilerstein formed the group that summer at the Marlboro Music School and Festival with violinist Peter Salaff, violist Martha Strongin Katz, and cellist Paul Katz. The group was initially called the "New Cleveland Quartet." In 1971, the group left the Cleveland Institute because of disagreements over teaching loads and took up residency at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; they dropped the word "New" from their name at this time. In 1976 they made their final change of residency, movin

Members

	James Dunham vl US
	William Preucil vn US
	Peter Salaff vn US
	Paul Katz vc US
	Donald Weilerstein vn *1940 US
	Martha Strongin Katz vl *1943 US
	Atar Arad vl *1945 IL