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Vermeer Quartet

Band, 1969-2007 US
Classical

The Vermeer Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and active until 2007.With performances in practically every major city in North and South America, Europe, the Far East, and Australia, the Vermeer Quartet achieved an international stature as one of the world's finest ensembles. The Vermeer performed at virtually all the most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Taos, Bath, South Bank, Lucerne, Stresa, Flanders, Kneisel Hall, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Orlando, Florida, Daniel, Edinburgh, Great Woods, Spoleto, Ravinia, and the Casals Festival. Based in Chicago, they spent part of each summer on the coast of Maine as the featured ensemble for Bay Chamber Concerts.

Members

	Bernard Zaslav vl *1926 US
	Richard Sher vc *1948 US
	Ron Leonard vc US
	Mathias Tacke vn DE
	Nobuko Imai vl *1943 JP
	Scott Nickrenz vl US
	Shmuel Ashkenasi vn *1941
	Richard Young vl, vn
	Marc Johnson vc US
	Jerry Horner vl
	Pierre Menard vn CA