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Playing “Chamber Music in any Chamber,” the Chiara String Quartet reaches from the concert hall into clubs, bars and galleries, expanding the places to hear live classical music while returning chamber music to its roots in intimate spaces. Described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as “vastly talented, vastly resourceful and vastly committed to the music of their time,” the Chiara is also continually finding new meaning within pieces from the well-established quartet canon. Their performances have been described as luminous, searing, soulful, biting and possessing a potent collective force.

In addition to performing in concert halls such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and Harris Hall in Aspen, Colorado, the Chiara devotes much of its performance season to reaching new audiences through concerts in non-classical venues. The Quartet has performed at Caffe Vivaldi in New York's West Village, Kansas City’s The Brick, Houston’s Mucky Duck, and Chicago’s The Hideout, among many others.