"Delgani String Quartet (Anthea Kreston, Jannie Wei, Amanda Grimm, and Eric Alterman) Fear No Music (varies, but these days it's usually Keiko Araki, Emily Cole, Kenji Bunch or Amanda Grimm, and Nancy Ives) Third Angle New Music (also varies, but lately it's mostly been Ling Ling Huang, Greg Ewer, Wendy Richman, and Valdine Ritchie Mishkin) Pyxis Quartet (Ron Blessinger, Greg Ewer, Charles Noble or Maia Hoffman, and Marilyn de Oliveira or her husband Trevor Fitzpatrick)"
"Couple of repeats there (Cole, de Oliveira, Ewer, Grimm, Hoffman); ChatterPDX is slowly evolving a stable quartet out of the dozen or so locals who've been playing the Beethoven cycle this year, most of whom play in one or more of these five quartets; and in a tangled bit of history the Pyxis Quartet actually used to be the 3A string quartet (before Blessinger left 3A for 45|| in 2018) - all of which shows just how tight-knit this little scene is."
Oregon has five principal string quartets: four in Portland and one in Eugene. Those ensembles include about twenty of the state's top string players, many of whom also perform in other chamber groups and serve as principals or assistant principals in Oregon symphonies. Frequent membership overlaps link the ensembles, and local projects such as ChatterPDX are emerging from the same pool of musicians. Pyxis evolved from the 3A string quartet after personnel changes in 2018. Three of the five quartets have recently performed works by Caroline Shaw. In October, 3A repeated Shaw's Evergreen, commissioned and premiered in 2020, with poetry by Kim Stafford.
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