Escher String Quartet

Formed in 2005, the Escher String Quartet has attracted the attention of several esteemed artists who immediately admired the young ensemble’s individual sound, inspired artistic decisions, and unique cohesiveness. Within months of its inception, the Escher Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be the student Quartet-in-Residence at each artist’s summer festival, and had made its Kennedy Center debut. In only two years, the group has established a reputation as a world-class string quartet. September saw the Escher Quartet begin its Chamber Music Society Two residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The quartet will also be the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. In 2007–08, the ensemble performs at the festivals of Ravinia, Green Music, Great Lakes Chamber Music, Music@Menlo, and La Jolla, and makes appearances at the 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, and The New School in New York, as well as Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society. The quartet also joins the faculty of Stony Brook University as Visiting Artist-in-Residence in a unique relationship with the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet.