Jasper String Quartet

Jasper String Quartet Presented by Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Presented by Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Winner of the 2012 Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as "sonically delightful and expressively compelling" (The Strad) and as "powerful" (The New York Times). The Classical Voice of North Carolina says they play "with sparkling vitality and great verve, …polished, engaged, and in tune with one another."

The Jaspers perform pieces emotionally significant to its members ranging from Haydn and Beethoven through Berg, Ligeti, and living composers. They have commissioned string quartets from some of today's up-and-coming composers, including Andrew Norman, Nicholas Omiccioli, Conrad Tao and Annie Gosfield. They are delighted to be in the midst of a quartet commissioning project with Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Aaron Jay Kernis. Critics and audiences commend the Jasper String Quartet's "programming savvy" (clevelandclassical.com) and they have performed throughout the United States and in Canada, England, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway and Panama.

"Sonically delightful and expressively compelling." — The Strad

CONCERT PROGRAM

Haydn - String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 No. 1

Kernis - String Quartet No. 3, "River" Co-commissioned by Chamber Music Monterey Bay, with Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Northwest, Chamber Music America, Classic Chamber Conerts of Naples (Florida), and Wigmore Hall (London).

Debussy - String Quartet, Op. 10