QuartetWeb | Premieres of compositions by Murray Schafer

Quartet No. 1	Purcell	1970-07-16	Vancouver BC, Canada	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 2	Purcell	1976-11-24	Vancouver BC, Canada	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Beauty and the Beast	Orford	1981-04-01	P
Notes Maureen Forrester, alto
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 3	Orford	1981-09-30	Boston MA, USA	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 4	Purcell	1989-04-18	Vancouver BC, Canada	P
Notes Margarita Noye, soprano; Joan Blackman, offstage violin
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 5	Orford	1990-01-09	Toronto ON, Canada	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 6

Gould

1993-06-06

Halifax NS, Canada

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Malcolm Lowe	Mayumi Seiler	Steven Dann	Fred Sherry

Quartet No. 7	Molinari	1999-05-04	Ottawa ON, Canada	P
Notes Concert version
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 7	Molinari	1999-12-11	Montréal QC, Canada	P
Notes Staged version
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 8	Molinari	2002-03-01	Montréal QC, Canada	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 9 H

[Unnamed] (HSSH2)

2006-02-12

Winnipeg MB, Canada

P

Notes

The name of the 2nd violinist is sometimes given incorrectly as Darryl Strain.

Additional references

Communication from Darryl Strain, 2010-08-17

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Gwen Hoebig	Karl Stobbe	Dan Scholz	Yuri Hooker

Quartet No. 10	Molinari	2006-02-15	Paris, France	P
No quartet performers are listed for this premiere.

Quartet No. 11

Lafayette

2007-04-06

Victoria BC, Canada

P

Notes

Previewed on 2007-03-31 in Port Coquitlam BC, Canada

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Ann Elliott-Goldschmid	Sharon Stanis	Joanna Hood	Pamela Highbaugh Aloni

Quartet No. 12

Molinari

2013-04-30

Montréal QC, Canada

P

Notes

The premiere was the release of the CD of the composition. The concert premiere was on 2013-05-17 in Montréal.

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Olga Ranzenhofer	Frédéric Bednarz	Frédéric Lambert	Pierre-Alain Bouvrette

Quartet No. 13

Molinari

2015-11-15

Montréal QC, Canada

P

VIOLIN I	VIOLIN II	VIOLA	CELLO
Olga Ranzenhofer	Frédéric Bednarz	Frédéric Lambert	Pierre-Alain Bouvrette