Lafayette String Quartet

Since their initial season in Detroit in 1984, the Lafayette Quartet has played to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences throughout Europe and North America. Early in their career, they garnered major competition prizes (e.g., the Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition), and embarked on extensive study with chamber musicians of international stature: two years with the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School (as winners of the Cleveland Quartet Competition), coaching with members of the Amadeus and Alban Berg Quartets, and long-term musical coaching from their mentor Rostislav Dubinsky. In 1988, the Lafayette was chosen by Musical America as "Young Artists to Watch", and has provided ample proof of the astuteness of that choice. Defying the odds in the demanding world of string quartets, the four women of the Lafayette have stayed together and flourished artistically for 15 years despite moving, marrying, and becoming parents. In 1991 the Lafayette left Detroit to accept positions as artists-in-residence at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. The high profile string program now boasts an annual two week intensive chamber music work... more...