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Concert Career
Whether interpreting beloved works of the quartet canon or premiering new compositions that speak to the urgencies of our time, FSQ performances draw audiences into a dynamic conversation—between past and future, sound and silence, tradition and transformation. The Fry Street Quartet approaches performance as a practice of deep listening—an invitation to presence, reflection, and resonance.
Known for programming that bridges masterworks and new voices, the FSQ has performed complete cycles of Bartók and Beethoven, Haydn’s Op. 76, and the quartets of Benjamin Britten. These core works, alongside many other standards of the canon, are in dialogue with an ever-growing body of commissioned music by composers such as Clarice Assad, Laura Kaminsky, Libby Larsen, Aakash Mittal, Gabriela Lena Frank, Hitomi Oba, Aida Shirazi, Akshaya Tucker, and Nicolás Lell Benavides—artists whose voices reflect global perspectives and personal inquiry.
The quartet’s 2025–26 season, The Crossing Point, weaves a through-line of artistic exploration: concerts that reach outward in joyful collaboration, extend from the center to bear witness to the present moment, and root downward into lineage and legacy. Works by Brahms, Frank, Mittal, Janáček, Kaminsky, and Beethoven form a musical arc across time and place—animated by the quartet’s belief in music as connective tissue in a fractured world.
Festival appearances and concert series have included performances at Carnegie Hall, the NOVA Chamber Music Series, the Moab Music Festival, Festival Amadeus, the National Gallery of Art, and venues throughout the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and China. Whether in intimate community spaces or on international stages, the FSQ performs with a blend of precision, spontaneity, and warmth that has drawn acclaim from The Strad, The Washington Post, and audiences around the world.
Recent Concert News
The Utah Review NOVA Chamber Music Series’ Britten and Shostakovich
New Perspectives: Touring China with the Fry Street Quartet
FSQ returns to its original residency in Hickory, NC
Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud hosts Fry Street Quartet
FSQ and Moab Music Festival Awarded A Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Grant
FSQ Returns to Festival Amadeus
FSQ Joins Faculty of The Crowden School's Summer Chamber Music Workshop
FSQ Celebrates 10 Years of Intensive Quartet Seminar at Intermountain Suzuki String Institute
Moab Sun News Strings Attached
Hawaii News Now Fry Street Quartet
Washington Post Fry Street Quartet Explores Earth's Resources in New Works
“A blend of technical precision and scorching spontaneity...”
Recent Concert Performances
Utah
NOVA Chamber Music Series
Fry Street Chamber Music Festival
Moab Music Festival
Connecticut
Music at the Pequot Library
New York
Rockefeller University Concert Series
Chautauqua Chamber Music Series
Columbia University presents "Theosophy and the Art"
Hawaii
Hawaii Opera Theater
Minnesota
St. Cloud Chamber Music Society
Kansas
Concerts in the Barn
Montana
Festival Amadeus
Pennsylvania
Beacon Hill Concert Series
California
Crowden Music Center
Sunset Concerts at St. Luke's
Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art
United Kingdom
University of York presents "Enchanted Modernities"
London Theosophical Society presents "Enchanted Modernities"
Concert Hall at Cardiff University presents "Enchanted Modernities"
Iowa
Chamber Music Quad Cities
Illinois
Guarneri Hall
“A warmly rich, opulent tone... Together, their balance, blend and rhythmic cohesion work beautifully.”