About The Jasper String Quartet
Hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and as having “played with sparkling vitality and great verve…They are polished, engaged, and in tune with one another” (Classical Voice of North Carolina), the Jasper String Quartet’s unity comes from its belief in the timeless and lifelong pursuit of music’s depth and meaning. The Quartet shares a commitment to exploring each work to its fullest and to discovering new musical connections through each performance. The Jaspers join Oberlin Conservatory as Artists-in Residence in the fall of 2010, where they will perform and coach ensembles. The Jaspers were the 2009-2010 Ernst C. Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, joining an elite group of previous Stiefel Quartets including the Miró, Pacifica, and Jupiter quartets. Caramoor invited them back for an unprecedented second year residency in 2010-2011. After winning the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Jaspers went on to win the Grand Prize at the 2008 Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs 2008, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions. The Quartet was the first ensemble to win the Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize (in 2009), an award established in 1945 and selected by the faculty for “best fulfilling…lofty musical ideals.” In 2010 the Jasper String Quartet won Astral Artists’ National Auditions; the Quartet makes it Philadelphia recital debut on Astral’s series in October 2010.
The members of The Jasper String Quartet are J Freivogel, violin; Sae Niwa, violin; Sam Quintal, viola; and Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello.
Updated: JUNE 2010
