Artists

Biography:

The Telegraph Quartet was formed in 2013 with equal passion for the standard chamber music repertoire and both contemporary and non-standard repertoire. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2017 as ..an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape and ‘powerfully adept… with a combination of brilliance and subtlety, the Telegraph Quartet was most recently awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Past prizes include the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet has since gone on to perform in concert halls, music festivals, and academic institutions, including Carnegie Hall, San Francisco’s Herbst Recital Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Chamber Masters Series as well as the Chautauqua Institution, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Emilia Romagna Festival. be Telegraph Quartet is currently the Quartet-in-idence at the San Francisco Conservatory of lic where they teach on the faculty of SFCM’s amber Music Program, on both the Collegiate Pre-College levels. While the Telegraph artet is indebted to numerous mentors and teachers, their primary musical guidance and support has come from Mark Sokol, Bonnie Hampton, and lan Swensen, of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The Telegraph Quartet is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.