The always superlative Takács Quartet performs works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Claude Debussy, as well as a UMS co-commission by U-M alumna Clarice Assad, who is working on her second piece for the Quartet.

Assad floats freely across musician idioms, drawing on an array of sounds from Amazon forest wildlife to operatic arias. “We fell in love with Clarice Assad’s music when we toured her quintet CLASH for the Takács and accordionist Julian Labro,” said the Quartet, about the work UMS presented by Assad in 2021. “Clarice’s music inspires interactive spirit and theatrical energy. We feel liberated by her limitless imagination and can’t wait to dive into her new string quartet for us.”