Four egos, one bench, zero guarantees — classical music's most brutal team sport.
This documentary delves into the lives, on and off stage, of four young classical musicians who give up the prospect of solo careers to form The Dover Quartet. We are with them from their meeting as students at the Curtis Institute of Music, through their breakthrough win at a prestigious string quartet competition, and when they find themselves touring internationally as their careers take off.
Sound
The quartet's actual performances — raw, imperfect, transcendent.
Editing
Seamless cuts between practice room mundanity and concert magic.
Director
Bruce Broder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Dover Quartet is now one of the most celebrated ensembles in the world, regularly performing at Carnegie Hall — this doc captures their hungry, pre-fame era.
Banff International String Quartet Competition is notoriously brutal; winners typically launch into immediate international careers, making this documentary a rare real-time career origin story.
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