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...Chiara (clear, pure, or light in Italian) Quartet is composed of Sirota, Beaver, Fischer, and Julie Yoon on second violin. Rising stars in the world of chamber music, the group’s performances have been described as “truly breathtaking” by the Washington Post and “superb” by the New York Times...
...history of the quartet goes back to 1993, when Beaver and Fischer, then high school students, attended the Musicorda chamber music festival at Mt. Holyoke College. But their separate college careers made it impossible for them to convene on a consistent basis. “It was kind of a pipe dream for a while,” Sirota says...
...when all three ended up at the Julliard School for their master’s degrees, and Yoon joined the group to complete the line-up, they won a Chamber Music America residency to live and play concerts in North Dakota. “We packed up and moved from New York City to Grand Forks, North Dakota. Culture shock is probably an understatement,” says Beaver...
That burgeoning reputation also led to their being selected for the Blodgett Residency at Harvard for 2008-09. The Blodgett Residency is a two-year-long program which, according to the Harvard Department of Music website, “provides for distinguished artists and ensembles to spend four weeks each year in residence at Harvard University offering workshops, coaching and lessons to Harvard students.” Each residency requires the group to perform at least one free public concert...
...most interesting and sometimes his most intimate work into his quartets,” Sirota says. “Beethoven went through such dramatic artistic and aesthetic changes over the course of his life that you can put together programs that are interesting, and have a great variety of music, just made up of his quartets...