The Attacca Quartet was formed at the Juilliard School in 2003 and is comprised of four second-year masters degree students - violinists Amy Schroeder and Keiko Tokunaga, violist Gillian Gallagher, and cellist Andrew Yee. As winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006 and one of ten quartets chosen to compete in the semi-finals of the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet is well on its way to becoming one of America's premier young performing ensembles.

The quartet gave their debut recital in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. One of three string quartets chosen worldwide to participate in the Pacific Music Festival's 2006 String Quartet Course in Sapporo, Japan, the Attacca Quartet also performed in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall as a part of the Juilliard Young Artists and Their Mentors series, sharing a program with the Juilliard String Quartet.

The Attacca Quartet has represented Juilliard in the John F. Kennedy Center Conservatory Project concert series and the Guarneri String Quartet's 40th Anniversary master class, and has also distinguished itself in seminars and master classes with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Vermeer, Miro, Tokyo, and St. Lawrence string quartets.

The resident quartet at the 2005 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, and participants in the International Program for advanced string quartets in the 2005 Music@Menlo festival, the Quartet has collaborated with pianist Jerome Lowenthal, pianist Claude Frank, violinist Arnold Steinhardt and the Tokyo String Quartet, and has also participated in the Emerson String Quartet's International String Quartet Seminar at Stonybrook University.

The quartet has recently begun extensive community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the 2006 Animato Summer Music Camp at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. The Attacca Quartet also devoted a week to outreach concerts for all ages in Hickory, North Carolina in a partnership with the Western Piedmont Symphony, and spent a similar week in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in 2007 as the featured ensemble in the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Music Festival. At Juilliard, the Attacca Quartet studies with Robert Mann and members of the Juilliard String Quartet.

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