Gregg Kallor, piano
The Attacca Quartet

“We are living in a golden age of string quartets…it’s hard to disagree when you
hear the vibrant young players in New York’s Attacca Quartet.”
– NPR

“At home in both jazz and classical forms, [Kallor] writes music of unaffected emotional directness.”

– The New York Times

Composer/pianist Gregg Kallor teams up with the Attacca Quartet for the world premiere of Kallor’s new piano quintet, commissioned by The Classical Recording Foundation and funded by a gift from Linda and Stuart Nelson. This is one of a number of recent commissions for Kallor, including his acclaimed monodrama based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart as well as a new work for string orchestra commissioned by Town Hall Seattle. The Attacca Quartet are one of the fastest-rising quartets playing currently, with a style, energy and charisma entirely their own. Said The Washington Post: “they may be a relatively young ensemble, but already they come very close to epitomizing the string quartet ideal…Mastery like this is scarce enough in quartets that have played together for decades”