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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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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The Chiara Quartet ("energetic and sophisticated" - The New Yorker) performs Jefferson Friedman's String Quartet No. 2 at New York's Le Poisson Rouge. Their recording of this, plus String Quartet No. 3 and two remixes of the quartets by Matmos, is available from New Amsterdam Records. Jefferson Friedman composed String Quartet No. 2 for the Chiara in 1999, and wrote String Quartet No. 3 for them in 2005.