Boustead Inaugural Concert: Jupiter String Quartet

The Jupiter Quartet, the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign who are described by The New Yorker as having “technical finesse and rare expressive maturity,” is presented by York College of Pennsylvania for a performance at Waldner Performing Arts Center. The ensemble will perform a stylistically diverse, collaborative program that includes excerpts from At the Octoroon Balls, String Quartet No. 1 by Wynton Marsalis, Su Lian Tan’s Life in Wayang and Antonin Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81 (1887), performed with pianist Ken Osowski.

The Jupiter Quartet has performed in some of the world’s finest halls, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace, and Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall. Their major music festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival and School, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Music Festival, Music at Menlo, the Seoul Spring Festival, and many others. In addition to their performing career, they have been artists-in-residence at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign since 2012, where they maintain private studios and direct the chamber music program.