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The Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Hye-Yung Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) celebrates its tenth anniversary season in 2010-2011. The Chiara is serving as the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University, where the group is currently performing the complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets.  

In 2011, the quartet will see two key record releases.  New Amsterdam Records will release the Chiara's recording of composer Jefferson Friedman's String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3. Both celebrated pieces, which "already deserve to be heard as classics of this decade" (The New York Times) were commissioned by the Chiara, and are the result of a more than ten-year friendship with the composer. In addition, the Chiara will release its recording of the complete string quartets of Brahms, plus Brahms' String Quintet in G-Major with violist Roger Tapping. Recorded over the course of four years, the project has been a touchstone for the ensemble and a channel, through which it has grown and evolved.


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"The abundant skill and commitment this group brings to its music-making was clear from the opening quartet, Op. 18, No. 3, dispatched with both vigor and sensitivity. The evening's highlight was the massive hurtling fugue that closed the second work, Op. 59. No. 3. This is perhaps the most adrenaline-laced six minutes of music in the entire string quartet literature, and the Chiara upped the stakes by choosing a very brisk tempo. But they held it together with highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing that brought the movement across as the viscerally thrilling ride it is."
–Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe


"This outstanding group of young musicians made its debut last month at Meany Hall with a second performance at the Tractor Tavern in Ballard the following night. The program was eclectic, ranging all over the map, and the music-making of a high order."
– R.M. CAMPBELL, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Chiara Quartet live at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC from Jem Moore on Vimeo.



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