Parker Quartet


The Parker Quartet is a string quartet, formed in 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts. The quartet has since travelled to multiple cities, is currently in residence at the University of South Carolina.

History

The Parker Quartet was founded in 2002 at the New England Conservatory, and enrolled in the Professional String Quartet Program during 2006–2008. They held residencies as Artists-in-Residence at the University of St. Thomas, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Minnesota, Quartet-in-Residence with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Artists-in-Residence with Minnesota Public Radio before becoming the current Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University's Department of Music as Professors of the Practice, as well as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of South Carolina.

Members

Awards

The Parker Quartet have won the Concert Artists Guild Competition in 2005, Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in 2005, and Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award in 2009. Their recording of György Ligeti quartets on Naxos Records won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2011.

Recordings

György Kurtág and Antonín Dvořák with Kim Kashkashian ECM RecordsBeethoven: String Quartets op. 18, 59, 74 Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-CarloMendelssohn: String Quartets op. 44 nos. 1 & 3 Nimbus RecordsAugusta Read Thomas: Of Being is a Bird Nimbus RecordsJeremy Gill: Capriccio Innova RecordingsLigeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Naxos RecordsBartók: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 5 Zig Zag Records