A Grammy Award–winning musician, Edward Dusinberre has been the first violinist of the Takács Quartet since 1993. He is an artist-in-residence and the Ralph E. and Barbara L. Christoffersen Faculty Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a faculty member of the Music Academy of the West and a visiting fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Dusinberre is the author of Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2016 Creative Communication Award. He has also won awards from Gramophone Magazine, the Japanese Recording Academy, and Chamber Music America. Outside of the quartet, he has made a recording of Beethoven’s violin sonatas nos. 9 (Kreutzer) and 10 on the Decca label.