After 210 years, the Gewandhaus Quartet has its first female member

After 210 years, the Gewandhaus Quartet has its first female member

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norman lebrecht

November 23, 2018

The Gewandhaus Quartet has appointed Associate Concertmaster Yun-Jin Cho as its second violinist.

She is the first female member since its foundation in 1808.

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  • boringfileclerk says:
    November 23, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    There goes the neighborhood .

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  • John Borstlap says:
    November 23, 2018 at 7:38 pm

    …. and all that time they were longing for female companionship, but had to wait until the taboo on females had been broken long enough.

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  • YoYo MaMa says:
    November 23, 2018 at 7:52 pm

    What does that have to do with anything except your obsession with females?

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  • Sue Sonata Form says:
    November 23, 2018 at 8:57 pm

    Superb!!! Keep doing that thing you do.

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  • Pianofortissimo says:
    November 24, 2018 at 9:27 am

    At last! 🙂

    (By the way: great, great quartet.)

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  • william osborne says:
    November 24, 2018 at 4:16 pm

    In 1991, women represented only 7% of the personnel in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. By 2009 it was 27.5%. This was an increase of about 1% per year which seems to be a rate found in many orchestras — an interestingly uniform international pattern.

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  • Karl Luttinger says:
    November 25, 2018 at 4:43 am

    I played quartett with YunJin when we were students at the Conservatory in Berlin. She was outstanding, sightreading through Haydn in a breeze. I am not surprised at this news and see her taking on the first chair in the future.

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