Seraph Brass was founded with the goal of showcasing the excellence of women brass players and highlighting musicians from marginalized groups. In addition to performances and residencies, the Seraph musicians also perform as a ten-piece ensemble, as soloists with symphony orchestras and wind bands, and in collaboration with other chamber artists.
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The Borromeo String Quartet has been ensemble-in-residence at the New England Conservatory and Taos School of Music, both for twenty-five years, and has for over two decades enjoyed a long-term relationship with Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The ensemble has the trail-blazing distinction of being the first string quartet to utilize laptop computers on the concert stage.
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WindSync is an interactive touring wind quintet based in Houston, Texas. The group frequently eliminates the “fourth wall” between musicians and audience, creating an intimate connection by performing from memory. This personal level of performance dovetails with the ensemble’s three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building.
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The Ying Quartet holds the belief that concert music can also be a meaningful part of everyday life. The group has performed in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile prisons, and the White House. The quartet first came to prominence in the early 1990s as resident quartet of Jesup, Iowa. Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes, schools, churches, and banks, the quartet had its first opportunities to integrate music into the life of a community.
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The Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio brings to each concert its distinctive fusion of authority and experience, energy, and passion. The Trio is known for its stimulating and varied programming of the entire trio repertoire, for its performances of Beethoven’s complete cycle of works for piano trio, and for its commissioning of many new works.
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The Isidore String Quartet aims to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the chamber music repertory. Outside the concert hall, the quartet has worked with PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US, providing music to marginalized communities—elderly, disabled, rehabilitating incarcerated, and homeless populations—who otherwise have limited access to high-quality live music performance.
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Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. The group formed as teenagers, studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel. The quartet has dedicated much of its artistic energy and musical prowess to the groundbreaking Beethoven quartets and has performed the complete Beethoven cycle on six occasions throughout the United States and Europe.
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The Goldmund Quartet, based in Germany, is now counted as among the world’s leading string quartets of the younger generation. The ensemble is noted for its “exquisite playing” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) in its interpretations of the great classical and modern works of the quartet literature. Its inwardness, the group’s unbelievably fine intonation, and musical phrases worked out down to the smallest detail inspire audiences worldwide.
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Recognized as one of the world’s finest piano ensembles, Trio con Brio was founded at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 1999. Now based in Copenhagen, the trio is lauded for its exceptional musicianship, fresh approach to the core repertoire, adventurous programming, and a commitment to bringing music to young people through highly creative concerts.
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Based in Philadelphia, Tempesta di Mare is a self-led baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble with a mission to inspire and enlighten through concerts, recordings, and broadcasts. The group’s achievements include more than 375 concerts by more than 70 composers; 12 acclaimed CDs on Chandos, where Tempesta remains the only American baroque orchestra on a roster of European ensembles; and more than 60 million annual broadcast-listeners in the United States, with millions more in over 56 countries worldwide.
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