Career Highlights
1974
American String Quartet founded by students at The Julliard School
Winners of the Coleman Prize & the Naumburg Award
Aspen Music Festival residency begins
1975
New York debut, Alice Tully Hall
1976
Featured ensemble: Carnegie Hall/The Julliard School BiCentennial Concert Series
1977
Featured on CBS's Camera Three "Quartets" broadcast
1978
One of first NEA Concert/Workshop Tour Grant Winners
1979–1998
Taos School of Music residency
1980
1st European Tour
1980–1990
Peabody Conservatory residency
1982
Featured ensemble on Steve Martin's Best Show Ever, produced by
NBC's Saturday Night Live
Rice University Shepherd School of Music residency begins (1982–1985)
1984
Manhattan School of Music residency begins
Complete Schoenberg Quartet Cycle for UCLA Schoenberg Institute 10th Anniversary
1988
Featured Ensemble in Hermann Prey's Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y, New York City
1989
Commission of George Tsontakis 4th Quartet with a grant from Chamber Music America
1990
Violinist Peter Winograd joins the quartet
1991
University of Nebraska Lied Center residency begins (1991–1994)
First tour of Japan
Complete Mozart Quintets with violist Michael Tree at Manhattan School of Music
1992–1997
Complete Recordings of Mozart String Quartets on set of matched Stradivarius instruments (MusicMasters 6 CD set)
1993
Second tour of Japan — Inaugural concerts for Yokahama's Philia Hall
1994
Performance of Bartók's 4th Quartet with New York City Ballet
1996–2002
"Cycles within Cycles," Mozart Viola Quintets and Bartók Quartets at Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
1996
Montreal Symphony season opening performances
1997–2000
Beethoven the Contemporary series for University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Musical Society
1997
Performers and adjudicators at the Evian Music Festival and Quartet Competition
1999
25th Anniversary — Tour of all 50 U.S. states
2005
First tour to China
2006
Cellist Wolfram Koessel joins the ASQ