Takacs Quartet Press Release
January 23, 2012

Takács Quartet to become Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall from the 2012/13 Season

John Gilhooly, Director of Wigmore Hall, today announced that from the 2012-13 season, the Takács Quartet will be Associate Artists at the Hall. This is a new position which is awarded on a long-term basis to senior internationally acclaimed ensembles who will be central to the venue’s chamber music output over many years.

Since taking the London audience by storm at its Wigmore debut in 1979, the Takács has enjoyed a long and much loved relationship with the city, where they will have completed seven hugely successful seasons as Southbank Centre’s Associated Artists in May 2012. With an intoxicating energy and faultless musical instincts, the Quartet is renowned for its exacting standards and hugely engaging performances, enjoying an unsurpassed reputation throughout Europe, the US, Australasia and Asia.

San Diego Union Tribune
by George Varga
January 20, 2012

Like his famous father before him, Arturo O'Farrill's name has long been synonymous with Afro-Latin jazz. But as both a performer and a listener, this Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist and band leader knows few boundaries.

"Music is a continual movement, and the lines between jazz and Latin jazz, and polka and hip-hop, are just a gradation or a series of demarcation points," said O'Farrill, whose seven-man band opens the La Jolla Music Society's 2012 Latin Jazz Concert Series. The group performs Friday at the Birch North Park Theatre.