Experience the dynamic artistry of the Isidore, one of the most exciting new quartets in the chamber music scene.

Music Toronto: Isidore Quartet

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

They import an individual sound from the Big Apple to Old Europe: The Isidore Quartet comes from New York and likes to follow the motto in their performances: treat the old as if it were new, and the new as if it were old.

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Isidore Quartet

Museum Ludwig

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established’.

University of Utah

The program connects past to present with a piece Mendelssohn wrote in 1838 to inspire religious contemplation, Benjamin Britten’s 1946 commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell, and Dinuk Wijeratne’s 2022 true story of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa. 

Mandel Hall

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory.  The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’

 The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon. The four began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and following a break during the global pandemic reconvened at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick.  In addition to Mr. Krosnick, the ISQ has coached with Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Joseph Kalichstein, Roger Tapping, Timothy Eddy, Donald Weilerstein, Atar Arad, Robert McDonald, Christoph Richter, Miriam Fried, and Paul Biss, while performing in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and at the Ravinia Festival.

Central United Methodist Church

The Isidore Quartet, recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition, joins forces with saxophonist Steven Banks, a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner. Their program features Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 12, Op. 127 and Banks’s own Quintet for Saxophone and String Quartet.

Isidore Quartet & Steven Banks, saxophone

Rockport Music-Shalin Liu Performance Center

Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition, the New York City-based Isidore String Quartet has been praised for “focus and command beyond their years” (Violinist.com). Their PCMS debut program features works by Haydn and Dvořák and the Philadelphia premiere of GRAMMY Award-winning composer Billy Childs’s Quartet No. 4.

Isidore Quartet

Jun 19, 2025

Isidore Quartet & Steven Banks, saxophone

Mar 6, 2026

Isidore Quartet

Mar 28, 2025

Music Toronto: Isidore Quartet

Jan 22, 2025

Isidore Quartet

Isidore Quartet