JASPER STRING QUARTET
The Jasper String Quartet formed at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2003. They immediately gained attention, winning the Oberlin-Smithsonian fellowship twice in their first two years, followed by the Presser Music Award in 2004, and the Kauffman Chamber Music Prize three times. In 2005 they were invited to play at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Norway. Other recent highlights include performances at the Kennedy Center, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music Series in New York City.
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In addition to performing quartet literature spanning five centuries, the Jasper Quartet has collaborated with vocalists, dancers, and visual artists. The quartet’s members also draw on their extensive individual experience in the baroque and contemporary music worlds.
The quartet members graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in 2006 and are currently in their first year of the graduate string quartet program at the Shepherd School of Music. They attended their third and final year of the Aspen Music Festival’s prestigious Advanced String Quartet Program last summer and have studied with members of several premiere quartets including the Takacs, Brentano, Cleveland, Juilliard, Axelrod, Pacifica, and Emerson Quartets.
Coached by Darrett Adkins and Gregory Fulkerson at Oberlin, they currently study with James Dunham, Norman Fischer, and Kenneth Goldsmith at the Shepherd School of Music. |
