Described as “vivacious” by New York City’s WQXR public radio and “a single living breathing organism….bringing grand and glorious life to the music” by Classical Voice of North Carolina, the Hyperion String Quartet has won first prizes at the Coleman, Music Teachers National Association, and Green Lake chamber music competitions, and was the bronze medal prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Since their formation in 1999 at the Eastman School of Music, they have performed from California to New York’s famed Lincoln Center and have had live radio and television appearances in California, Connecticut, New York, Wisconsin and Canada. Members of the Quartet have performed with such artists as Toby Appel, Melvin Chen, Jennifer Frautschi, Benny Kim, Anne Marie McDermott, Lorna McGee, Sophie Shao, Eugenia Zukerman, and the Miró and Rossetti String Quartets.

The Quartet is currently based in Saratoga Springs, New York where they are directors and coaches for the Chamber Music Program of the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra. They were recently the inaugural Joseph Fisch/Joyce Axelrod Resident String Quartet at San Diego State University in association with the La Jolla Music Society. During this residency, they had many opportunities to perform and teach, as well as collaborate with the faculty and students at the School of Music and Dance, including performances of Tan Dun’s Eight Colors for String Quartet in a unique collaboration with SDSU’s Dance Department. They have also been the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at Kent State University (2002-2004) and at the Hartt School (2004-2005) where they served as teaching assistants to the Miró and Miami String Quartets.

The Quartet has been selected to participate in such prestigious programs as the Juilliard String Quartet seminar and the Emerson Quartet International Chamber Music Workshop. They were the Young Quartet in Residence at the Strings in the Mountains Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado in 2002 and 2003 and served as the Young Artist Ensemble in Residence at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in 2005 and 2006. Last season, they held a two-week residency with the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory, North Carolina.

The Quartet is highly dedicated to music education and performed community and outreach concerts on behalf of the La Jolla Music Society and San Diego State University as part of their residency. They were Artists in Residence for Young Audiences of Rochester and also held the New Performing Arts Kentucky residency, which gave them the opportunity to teach chamber music to students of all ages. The Quartet has served as adjunct faculty in the Community Division of the Hartt School, as well as mentors to the Connecticut Youth Symphony. In June of 2008, they will return as the Faculty String Quartet in Residence at the 37th Montana Chamber Music Workshop where they will teach and coach chamber music.