Presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

Formed at Oberlin Conservatory, the Jasper Quartet launched their professional career in 2006 as Rice University’s Graduate Quartet-in-Residence. They have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling,” (The Strad) and their latest recording of music by Aaron Jay Kernis and Claude Debussy was described by Gramophone as “flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced.”

Show Notes

  • Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 52, Opus 64 No. 6
  • Akira Nishimura - String Quartet No. 2 "Pulses of Light"