The Aiana String Quartet, founded in 2009 in New York City, is the newly appointed Scholarship Quartet in residence at San Diego State University in association with Mainly Mozart. Praised by the Durango Herald as “spirited, precise and full of energy,” the quartet has performed for enthusiastic audiences both in the US and abroad. The quartet’s members have collaborated with many renowned artists including the Tokyo String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Anthony Marwood, Donald Weilerstein, Midori Gotō, Natasha Brofsky and Ani Kavafian and hold degrees from prestigious institutions including Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, USC Thornton School of Music, Yale University, Stony Brook University and the San Francisco Conservatory.
Passionate about the performance of new music and interdisciplinary work, they have premiered concertos at venues such as Carnegie Hall, performed at the Cervantino and SpazioMusica Festivals and worked closely with personalities including John Corigliano, John Williams and Garth Knox. The Aiana String Quartet now coaches chamber music as “Guest Artists” at San Diego’s Canyon Crest Academy, and will perform a tour of California’s coastline bringing music into high schools and colleges through a series of outreach concerts. The quartet’s repertoire includes works by Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, and Shostakovich, to name a few.
The Aiana has just completed a tour of New Hampshire and Massachusetts with a live segment on Vermont Public Radio’s “Classical Music with Walter Parker” and will continue to perform throughout Southern California. The quartet has recently been invited to attend the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet studies, where they will be performing throughout the summer while working with the Takács, American, Jupiter and Emerson Quartets. In addition, the Aiana String Quartet will be the featured string quartet at the 2011 International Clarinet Convention in Los Angeles, where they will perform with Ricardo Morales and Joaquin Valdepeñas, principal clarinetists of the Philadelphia and Toronto Orchestras, among others.
Aiana String Quartet members: