New York-based Harlem Quartet, currently quartet-in-residence at the John J. Cali School of Music and the
Royal College of Music in London, has been praised for its “panache” by The New York Times and hailed in
the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and
intelligent.” It has also won plaudits from such veteran musicians as GRAMMY-winning woodwind virtuoso
Ted Nash of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, who declared in a May 2018 Playbill article, “Harlem
Quartet is one of the greatest string quartets I have ever heard. They can play anything.” Since its public
debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students in 47 states as well as in
the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
Harlem Quartet has three distinctive characteristics: diverse programming that combines music from the
standard string quartet canon with jazz, Latin, and contemporary works; a collaborative approach to
performance that is continually broadening the ensemble’s repertoire and audience reach through artistic
partnerships with other musicians from the classical and jazz worlds; and an ongoing commitment to
residency activity and other forms of educational outreach.