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Performing groups

Name

Reference in name

Residence

Began

Ended

Fine Arts U

http://www.fineartsquartet.org

Principles/mandate?

USA

1939

M T R R

Notes

The Quartet’s work was interrupted during the Second World War, although it gave some concerts then, with a varied roster of players.

Its official year of founding is 1946. In its early years it was also known as the Fine Arts Quartet of Chicago and the Fine Arts Quartet of the American Broadcasting Company.

Problems, questions

Morris Morovitsky played 2nd violin in a concert on 1946-05-03 in Chicago. Was he a continuing member, or a substitute?

Additional references

Fine Arts Quartet Records, 1910–1989 [2011-05-16]

ext	Given name	Family name		Start	Stop
VIOLIN I	Leonard	Sorkin	b. 1916	1939	1982	d. 1985
	Ralph	Evans	b. 1953	1982
VIOLIN II	Bernard A Ben	Senescu	b. 1904	1939	194u	d. 1968
	Joseph	Stepansky	b. 1916	1946	1954	d. 1984
	Abram	Loft	b. 1922	1954	1979	d. 2019
	Additional references Fine Arts Quartet Records, 1910–1989 [2011-05-16]
	Laurence	Shapiro	b. 1942	1979	1983
	Additional references Fine Arts Quartet Records, 1910–1989 [2011-05-16]
	Efim	Boico		1983
VIOLA	Sheppard	Lehnhoff	b. 1905	1939	1952	d. 1978
	Irving	Ilmer	b. 1919	1952	1963	d. 1997
	Gerald	Stanick	b. 1933	1963	1968
	Bernard	Zaslav	b. 1926	1968	1980	d. 2016
	Jerry	Horner	b. 1935	1980	2000	d. 2019
	Michael	Strauss		2000	2001
	Yuri A Юрий Yuriy	Gandelsman A Гандельсман Handelsmann	b. 1951	2001	2008
	Chauncey	Patterson		2008	2009
	Nicolò	Eugelmi		2009	2013
	Juan-Miguel	Hernández	b. 1985	2013	2018
	Notes He went on tours as the quartet’s violist in 2013–14 and joined as a member in 2014.
	Gil	Sharon		2018
CELLO	George	Sopkin	b. 1914	1939	1942	d. 2008
	Karl	Fruh	b. 1914	1942?		d. 1999
	George	Sopkin	b. 1914	1946	1979	d. 2008
	Wolfgang	Laufer	b. 1946	1979	2011	d. 2011
	Robert	Cohen		2011	2018
	Notes He went on tours as the quartet’s cellist in 2011 and joined as a member in 2012.
	Niklas	Schmidt	b. 1958	2018