W.A. Mozart - Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589

Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet

Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht

W.A. Mozart - String Quartet in B-Flat, K.589

Reinaldo Moya - Yara for String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 127

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)

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.