W.A. Mozart - String Quartet in B-Flat, K.589
Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 127
W.A. Mozart - Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589
Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet
Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
Michelle Barzel Ross: little bells
Franz Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D.956
The Jasper String Quartet with Jia Kim, cello
W.A. Mozart—String Quartet No. 22, 24’
Tōru Takemitsu—A Way a Lone, 1981, 14’
Antonín Dvořák—String Quintet No. 2, 33’
The Jasper String Quartet with Anthony Manzo, double bass
Franz Schubert—String Quartet No. 13, 34’
Katherine Balch—Drip Music, 2019, 9’
Alexander Borodin—String Quartet No. 2, 30’
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte (11’)
Edgar Meyer - Duet No. 2 for Cello and Bass (6’)
Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet (15’)
Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 (34’)
The Jasper String Quartet with Anthony Manzo, bass
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte (11’)
Edgar Meyer - Duet No. 2 for Cello and Bass (6’)
Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet (15’)
Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 (34’)
The Jasper String Quartet with Anthony Manzo, bass
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte (11’)
Edgar Meyer - Duet No. 2 for Cello and Bass (6’)
Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet (15’)
Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 (34’)
The Jasper String Quartet with Anthony Manzo, bass
The Jasper and Opal String Quartets collaborate on an exciting and eclectic program. Celebrate the laid-back mountain lifestyle this summer with a chamber music takeover at this iconic River Arts District venue. Bring your friends, grab a drink and bites from the on-site taqueria and enjoy a liberated listening experience Presented by Asheville Chamber Music Series in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas.
The annual Saint Paul Chamber Music Institute culminates with our collaborations concert! Enjoy the fruit of the labors of our wonderful students as they perform together and alongside their coaches from the Jasper String Quartet. Presented in the gorgeous Mairs Concert Hall.
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Michelle Barzel Ross - Little Bells
Reinaldo Moya - Yara
Caroline Shaw - Entr'acte (Jasper String Quartet)
Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (Karen Kim, violin, Tom Rosenberg, cello)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127 (Jasper String Quartet)
The Saint Paul Chamber Music Institute (SPCMI) is a unique chamber music program for pre-college and college players led by members of the Jasper Quartet.
Students deeply explore two works of chamber music- one with the special opportunity of rehearsing daily and performing in an ensemble with members of the Jasper String Quartet, and the second in an ensemble with fellow students.
Music-making skills including interpretation, ensemble technique, listening, and communication with an audience are emphasized. At the same time, we promote citizenship skills related to responsibility to others, encouraging positive group dynamics, and collaborative problem solving. Students participate in masterclasses and coachings from world-renowned faculty, attend SPCMI faculty performances, and perform in the SPCMI Collaboration Concert with members of the Jasper String Quartet.
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Break Away
BRITTANY J. GREEN Dreamwalker (arranged for JSQ 20th Anniversary)
ANDREA CASARRUBIOS Armadura
Samuel Cao, cello 2026 Christine Kim Young Artist Award Winner
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127
Innovation and creativity come to life in this program of maverick composers. The first half features works by the iconic Jessie Montgomery and a new arrangement by Brittany J. Green, who is described by The Washington Post as “a creative force of attention-seizing versatility.” Each of these composers finds their singular path in blurring the boundaries of musical styles ranging from hip-hop and bluegrass to twentieth-century modernism. Ludwig van Beethoven’s triumphant String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, a breakaway work that was unprecedented in its expansion of the sonic world of string quartets, closes the program.
With Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Maddalena Laura Sirmen String Quartet No. 5
Michelle Ross JSQ 20th commission
Franz Schubert Cello Quintet in C major D. 956
This program opens with works by two extraordinary violinist/composers, written centuries apart. Classical-era composer Maddalena Laura Sirmen and contemporary “formidable composer” (Textura) Michelle Ross bring longing and lyricism to their works in reflection of their own times. The program closes with Franz Schubert’s monumental String Quintet in C Major, a mystical exploration of the complexity of the human condition.
The JSQ residency runs 2/9-2/13 with a free recital 2/12.
Sirmen: Quartet No. 5
Moya: Yara (2025) Jasper String Quartet commission
Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127
JOSEPH HAYDN Quartet Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
REINALDO MOYA Yara for String Quartet (2025) Jasper SQ 20th Anniversary Commission
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Jasper String Quartet and Jupiter String Quartet
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5
PATRICK CASTILLO String Quartet No. 2, Libera me (2025) JSQ 20th Anniversary Commission
GEORGE WALKER Lyric from String Quartet No. 1
CLAUDE DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
Four composers spanning four centuries explore the luminous possibilities of the string quartet. The heart of the program features George Walker’s famously stunning Lyric and a newly commissioned work by Patrick Castillo, whose music is lauded as “brimming with a variety of texture and sound that draw you into its world” (I Care If You Listen). Beloved works by Josef Haydn and Claude Debussy bookend this radiant program.
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5
PATRICK CASTILLO String Quartet No. 2, Libera me Jasper String Quartet 20th Anniversary Commission
(AFCM Co-Commission)
GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings
CLAUDE DEBUSSY String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
A recipient of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award (2012), the Quartet’s playing has been described as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad). The ensemble has released eight albums, including its most recent release, Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung (2023), which Strings Magazine praised as being “intensely dramatic throughout demonstrating both their advocacy of new music and their transcendent mastery.” The Quartet’s 2017 release, Unbound, was named by The New York Times as one of the year’s 25 Best Classical Recordings.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Three Divertimenti
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: An Andean Walkabout
STUBBLEFIELD Music, Op. 27 World Premiere/PCMS Commission
ERROLYN WALLEN All the Blues I See US Premiere
PCMS delights in highlighting the Jasper Quartet, one of today’s preeminent American string quartets which also happens to call Philadelphia home. Hailed as being “expressively assured and beautifully balanced” (Gramophone), the ensemble is joined for this concert by Julietta Curenton, a flutist known for her “bold and dramatically characterized playing” (Dallas Morning News) and a “tone that draws in one’s ear with sounds and ideas that simply cannot be resisted” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, “Erdödy”, No. 5, Hob.III:79
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet
CLAUDE DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, “Erdödy”, No. 5, Hob.III:79
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet
CLAUDE DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
JOSEPH HAYDN String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, “Erdödy”, No. 5, Hob.III:79
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet
CLAUDE DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
REINALDO MOYA Yara (2025) JSQ 20th Anniversary commission
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 51
Sounds of one’s homeland have the power to evoke our deepest emotions and cultural legends. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas, already a canonical favorite of our time, seamlessly blends elements of western classical and Andean folk music into a transportive and thrilling work. Venezuelan composer Reinaldo Moya brings his “beguiling, attractive soundscapes” (San Diego Tribune) to a new work commissioned by the Jasper String Quartet. The program closes with the lush String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51, of Antonín Dvořák, whose passion for capturing the sound of homeland in music inspired generations to come.
Earplay presents a musical portrait of acclaimed San Francisco based composer Richard Festinger, featuring three major works that span three decades of his composing career, including his String Quartet No. 3; Smokin’ with Cocuswood, for oboe, string quartet and piano; and selections from Letters and the Weather of Six Mornings: Eight Songs on Poems of Jane Cooper, for soprano and piano.
Widely recognized for its elegance and emotive power, Festinger’s music is “…notable for its combination of propulsive energy with an impeccable sense of poise and balance”, writes Frank J. Oteri in the Tanglewood Bulletin. And Josua Levine, in the Journal of the Society for American Music, describes Festinger’s work as “…vibrant, skillfully wrought… intellectually and viscerally compelling music.”
The eminent New York soloists soprano Alice Teyssier, pianist Peggy Kampmeier, and oboist Noah Kay, join the renowned Jasper String Quartet in bringing these stunning works to life in sparkling and vivid performances.
Tickets Available here.
Piano Quintet No. 1 Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Jasper String Quartet
Joel Fuller
Tickets Available here.
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Pisachi (Reveal) - Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (b.1968)
String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat major, Op. 51, B. 92, "Slavonic" - Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Jasper String Quartet
Joel Fuller
