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Jasper String Quartet
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New Haven, Connecticut
United States

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Member Since8/19/2007
Band Websitewww.jasperquartet.com
Band MembersJ Freivogel, violin
Sae Niwa, violin
Sam Quintal, viola
Rachel Henderson, cello
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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 10 2009 8:00P
The Music Shed on the Battell Estate Norfolk, Connecticut
Jul 17 2009 6:30P
Atsubetsu Ward Center Sapporo
Jul 18 2009 4:00P
Sapporo Concert Hall Sapporo
Jul 22 2009 8:00P
Pacific Music Festival Sapporo
Jul 23 2009 6:30P
Marine Hall, Otaru Shimin Center Sapporo
Jul 26 2009 8:00P
Sapporo Art Park Sapporo
Jul 30 2009 8:00P
La Jolla Chamber Music Festival La Jolla
Aug 1 2009 7:30P
La Jolla Summerfest La Jolla, California
Aug 4 2009 8:00P
La Jolla SummerFest La Jolla, California
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
La Jolla SummerFest La Jolla, California
Aug 9 2009 2:00P
Prelude Concert: La Jolla Summerfest La Jolla, California
Aug 23 2009 2:00P
Season Finale: La Jolla Summerfest La Jolla
Sep 22 2009 8:00P
Yale Chamber Music Society New Haven, Connecticut
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Zankel Hall New York, New York
Oct 10 2009 8:00P
The Salt Block Hickory, North Carolina
Nov 7 2009 7:30P
Parkville Classicals Series Hartford, Connecticut
Nov 8 2009 8:00P
Private House Concert New York
Nov 17 2009 8:00P
Yale Chamber Music Society New Haven
Nov 22 2009 4:00P
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts Katonah, New York
Dec 7 2009 8:00P
Naples Chamber Music Series Naples, Florida
Jan 25 2010 8:00P
West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church Rocky River, Ohio
Mar 8 2010 8:00P
Naples Chamber Orchestra Naples, Florida
Mar 15 2010 8:00P
Naples Chamber Orchestra Naples, Florida
Mar 20 2010 8:00P
Caramoor Center for Music and Arts Katonah, New York
Jul 19 2010 8:00P
Credo Chamber Music Festival Oberlin, Ohio

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   About Jasper String Quartet

The Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and as having played “flashingly, brilliantly, [and] gloriously, with excellent interplayer communication” (The Santa Fe New Mexican). The communication comes naturally as J and Rachel are married and all four members are close friends, living within a block of each other in New Haven, CT.

Winners of the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, 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 Jaspers are currently the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, studying with the Tokyo String Quartet.

The Jaspers are the 2009-10 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 Miro, Pacifica, and Jupiter Quartets. In 2009, they were the first ensemble to win the Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected by the faculty for “best fulfilling Dean Parker’s lofty musical ideals”. In addition, the Jaspers were finalists in the 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition.

Originally formed as a student ensemble at Oberlin Conservatory, the Jaspers began pursuing a professional career when they became Rice University’s graduate quartet-in-residence in 2006 studying with James Dunham, Norman Fischer, and Kenneth Goldsmith. The quartet has performed across the United States and in Canada, Norway, England, Italy, and Japan.

The Jasper Quartet is dedicated to performing pieces emotionally significant to its members ranging from Haydn and Beethoven through Ligeti, Webern, and Ades. Next season they are beginning a series of programs called Understanding… through music!. These programs aim to explore a country, time, or event through its music by connecting repertoire and historical or social happenings through writings and in-concert talking. The first program explores the music of the Eastern European nations of Hungary and the Czech Republic. The second focuses on the Second Viennese School and the innovation of music with Beethoven and Webern.

This summer they will be performing Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and participating in the Pacific Music Festival in Japan and La Jolla SummerFest in California. The Jaspers have attended the Aspen Music Festival's Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, the Emerson Quartet International Chamber Music Workshop, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. In the Melba and Orville Roleffson Residency at the Banff Centre they embarked on "guerilla chamber music," performing concerts in unusual settings around Alberta. During their time at the Shepherd School of Music the quartet collaborated with the Houston Friends of Chamber Music to bring quartet programs into local high schools. Next year, they will continue this work at Caramoor in addition to coaching undergraduate ensembles at Yale.

The Jasper String Quartet is named for Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, a place unmatched for its inherent and dramatic beauty – qualities integral to the Jasper’s belief in the power of string quartet performance. Its members come from St. Louis, MO (J), Tokyo, Japan (Sae), Fairbanks, AK (Sam) and Ann Arbor, MI (Rachel).

For more information please visit www.jasperquartet.com.


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Souza Winds





Mar 22 2009 6:59 PM

Greetings from Manchester UK. Thanks for your friendship.

Souza Winds
Stan Grill





Apr 10 2009 1:10 AM

lovely, lyrical playing. glad to become a friend. if you are interested in reading through new string quartets, please get in touch. happy to oblige! best regards, stan.
Kevin





Nov 30 2008 11:16 PM

yeah dudes! congrats j and rachel too, ryan told me the news.
Fein Violins/Fine Violins





Oct 27 2008 10:58 PM

Jasper Quartet,
Best wishes to all of you in your graduate studies and your musical careers.
Andy Fein
Fein Violins
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Parmaviolins di Peter Pots





Sep 17 2008 8:58 AM

your music is fabulous!! such force and concentration with transparent sound rich in nouance!!! i really enjoyed listening to all your music!! please have a look at my website where you can see more of my work: http://peterpotsliutaio. com
take care
peter pots
Matthew Lee Knowles


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Sep 15 2008 9:32 PM

Hey! thanks for being a friend!!! Very sweet of you :) loads more stuff on the ol’ profile.
Check it out and chat to me :)


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Christos Hatzis





Jul 11 2008 12:05 PM

Hello,

I added a sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (THE GATHERING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet on the attached flash audio player (also located further down my MySpace page or at www. reverbnation. com/christoshatzis) and I would like to invite you to listen to it. A sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) is still available on the original MySpace audio player. Thank you for the friendship and...

Best wishes,
Christos Hatzis
www. hatzis. com


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Will Dicke





Jul 21 2008 11:19 PM

Hello your music is great! Please check out my music and enjoy!!! -Will Dicke
Dolce Vita String Quartet





May 30 2008 3:49 AM

Thank you for accepting us into your friends.
Welcome to ours!
Renee





May 10 2008 3:28 AM

wow you guys were amazing!!!!
It was excellent to see ya'll again :)
You need to come to Ithaca!
Nigel Keay - composer & violist





Apr 1 2008 5:32 PM

Dear Jasper Quartet, Congratulations on your playing, I enjoyed listening to your selection of recordings very much, you have great vibrancy and poise in your playing. I hope there might be an opportunity to meet you in person one day soon.
sincerely, Nigel Keay www. nigelkeay. com
Pull





Mar 14 2008 6:14 AM

Beautiful
SonJa





Feb 18 2008 3:56 AM

beautiful job tonight!
Stefano Pierini





Feb 12 2008 3:14 PM

ciao,
thx for adding me.
(dissonance quartet is one of my mostly loved piece..)
'best,
stefano
matthew quayle





Nov 14 2007 2:38 AM

Hello Jaspers, thanks for adding me. It's nice to see some fellow Obies doing so well.
Duo Vivo





Nov 13 2007 9:29 AM

Thanks for adding us.
DUO VIVO
Dreamthemes





Oct 28 2007 9:30 PM

hi JSQ
thanks for accepting my music to your friends-your page is great!Wonderful quartet-amazing playing!drop by to say hello if you can.
Brian
Ryan Snow





Oct 23 2007 5:09 AM

Yo, put some tracks up here for us to listen to! I crave JaSpER!!
Alison Melville





Oct 7 2007 2:39 AM

I knew you before you were famous too. Looks like things are going great! Rock on, and thanks for the add -
Alison
Ryan Snow





Aug 21 2007 10:28 PM

Fuck yeah, guerilla chamber music! We need it.
I have been moved by your playing since the beginning, proud to say I knew you before you were famous.
Peace
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