Asian tour
We are excited to announce our tour of China and Korea at the end of May. We will perform and do residency work in Shanghai, China, as well as Seoul, and Pohang in South Korea. Details are on our calendar.
Next Season Announcement
Stay tuned for an announcement of our 2012-2013 concert season dates in June!
Recording the Complete Brahms Quartets
In early April, we completed a recording of the 3 string quartets of Johannes Brahms and the G Major Viola Quintet with Grammy award-winner Roger Tapping at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall with multiple Grammy award-winner Judith Sherman as producer. Thank you to all who helped us out with our kickstarter project. If you want to learn more about this project, watch the featured video on the right.
The Chiara Quartet's recording of Jefferson Friedman's String Quartet No. 3 on New Amsterdam Records was nominated for a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2011!
Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creating thoroughly insightful interpretations of new music, the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Hye-Yung Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) captivates and enthralls its audiences throughout the country and is the 2011 CMA/ASCAP adventurous programming award winner in the mixed ensemble category. Over its first decade, the Chiara has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its "highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing" (The Boston Globe).
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Jefferson Friedman: Quartets
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CD Reviews: Jefferson Friedman – San Francisco Chronicle
But what's also striking is how resourcefully and provocatively Friedman handles the quartet medium, splicing together traditional techniques of chords and counterpoint with an explosive rhythmic edge that makes those techniques sound endlessly surprising. He is helped in this by the superb performances of the Chiara String Quartet, which plays with demonic energy, as well as a lush ensemble sound that brings out the hidden depths of Friedman's harmonic language.
FRIEDMAN Quartets – The Classical Review
This new coupling of Jefferson Friedman’s Second and Third String Quartets by the Chiara String Quartet brings to disc for the first time one of the crucial partnerships of New York’s live music scene over the past decade and more.
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Kickstarter video, describing our next project: recording the complete Brahms String Quartets