Fine Arts Quartet

The Fine Arts Quartet is a chamber music ensemble founded in Chicago, United States in 1946 by Leonard Sorkin and George Sopkin. The Quartet has recorded over 200 works and has toured internationally for nearly 80 years, making it one of the longest enduring major string quartets. In its history, the Quartet has had two leaders: Leonard Sorkin, from 1946 to 1981, and Ralph Evans, from 1982 to the present. Its current members are violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violist Gil Sharon, and cellist Niklas Schmidt. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Ar...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)