Aeolus String Quartet - 2026

In September of 2024 we met Aeolus String Quartet, whose combined grace “LIFT-ed” us up with a joyous performance of Paul Wiancko’s 2016 work. Some of your comments to me included “The Aeolus quartet was beyond excellent. They exuded musicality, originality and enthusiasm” and “Thanks SO much for bringing Aeolus to Boise! Their joy in playing and . . . the Chamber Music Society make me very happy! This season’s concert promises more uplift and excitement with a 2017 work by American icon Joan Tower, plus Smetana’s deeply personal and romantic Quartet in E Minor, “From My Life.”

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings "worthy of a major-league quartet" (Dallas Morning News). Formed in 2008, the Quartet comprises violinists Isabelle Durrenberger and Rachel Shapiro, violist Caitlin Lynch, and cellist Jia Kim. Mark Satola of the Cleveland Plain Dealer writes, “The quartet has a rich and warm tone combined with precise ensemble playing (that managed also to come across as fluid and natural), and an impressive musical intelligence guided every technical and dramatic turn.” The Aeolus Quartet has performed in venues ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to Dupont Underground, a subterranean streetcar station in DC's Dupont Circle. They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School and are currently Quartet-in-Residence at Musica Viva NY.