Joel Krosnick. Photo by Simon Powis.
In Thursday’s (4/17) Strad (U.K.), an unsigned article reports, “The highly respected American cellist Joel Krosnick has died at the age of 84. He was the cellist of the Juilliard Quartet from 1974-2016, and a renowned teacher at New York’s Juilliard School. Krosnick was born on 3 April 1941 in New Haven, Connecticut, and studied at Columbia University, where he became deeply involved with new music, eventually becoming a founding member of The Group for Contemporary Music. His passion for contemporary music led to him giving premieres of works by [many contemporary] composers … He was a prolific recording artist with the Juilliard Quartet, recording the complete quartets of Beethoven, Bartók, Brahms, Hindemith, Janáček and Schoenberg, and he recorded the complete Beethoven and Brahms sonatas with pianist Gilbert Kalish, with whom he had a 30-year partnership…. After his retirement from the Juilliard Quartet Krosnick continued to serve as chair of the cello department at Juilliard and a member of the chamber music faculty. He also served on the faculty of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and at The Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop…. He was also involved with the Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California, and the Aspen, Marlboro, Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals.”
