The Jupiter String Quartet is pleased to announce new concert programming for future seasons, offered for 2026-27 and beyond.

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In Vienna

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This program features string quartet masterworks of Vienna that illuminate an historic shift in compositional style at the turn of the 20th century. The lyrical and longing beauty of Franz Schubert’s late voice is paired with Berg’s intensely expressive 20th-century masterpiece, Lyric Suite. Berg’s highly personal work was composed as a secret love letter, and like so much of Schubert’s music, draws its inspiration from poetry and the voice. Another musical love letter opens the program: Anton Webern’s Langsammersatz, which was written at the height of late-Romanticism and just before the advent of the Second Viennese School to which both Berg and Webern belonged. To conclude the program, the Jupiters offer Schubert’s “Rosamunde” or his transcendent Cello Quintet with cellist Raman Ramakrishnan.

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• Anton Webern: Langsammersatz

• Alban Berg: Lyric Suite

• Franz Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D 804, “Rosamunde”
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  • String Quintet in C Major, D 956 with cellist Raman Ramakrishnan

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A Minor Exploration

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The Jupiter Quartet invites listeners to experience two of the great A-minor string quartets of the 19th century side-by-side. These masterpieces by Schubert and Brahms were each born out of lyrical impulses, offering tender slow movements in a major key, melancholy minuets, and folk-inspired finales, but always with the distinctiveness of their incomparable compositional voices. In between these two works, the Jupiters offer Britten’s final string quartet — a colorful and ephemeral work inspired by the beauty of Venice’s canals — or a combination of Korean-American composer Juri Seo’s meditative Respiri and Clarice Assad’s lively Canções da America, inspired by the folk music and dance of South America.

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• Franz Schubert: String Quartet in A minor, D 804, “Rosamunde”

• Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94
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  • Juri Seo: Respiri and Clarice Assad: Canções da America

• Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

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Musical Mosaic

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This varied program can begin with either Beethoven’s ebullient quartet Op. 18, No. 6 or Haydn’s striking Op. 76 No. 3, both filled with colorful creativity and dexterous compositional variety. Next, Britten’s third and final quartet represents a composer at the peak of his maturity - it is his last major finished work and contains a lovely ode to the city of Venice, where he spent many of his last months. As an alternative to the Britten, the Jupiter Quartet offers Korean-American composer Juri Seo’s meditative Respiri and Clarice Assad’s lively Canções da America, inspired by the folk music and dance of South America. The program closes with Beethoven’s radiant quartet in E flat Major, Op. 127 - a wonderfully uplifting and epic journey in his classic late style.​

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• Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
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  • Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3 “The Emperor”

• Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 94
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  • Juri Seo: Respiri and Clarice Assad: Canções da America

• Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127

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Luminous Paths​

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​The Jupiter Quartet explores the concept of journeying into light and features pieces inspired by life-giving elements. Luminous Paths begins in the murky depths of one of Mozart’s most mind-bending introductions: the beginning of the “Dissonance” quartet. The famous opening of this work features tense chromaticism which gradually works its way towards cheerful relief. Next, the Jupiters offer either Korean-American composer Juri Seo’s meditative

Respiri or New Zealand composer Salina Fisher’s soothing Heal, two pieces that invite us to breathe and recover. Another vital life-force, water, is the inspiration for Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s Oasis, which features the sound of recorded droplets. The transformation into light is completed in the joyful transcendence of Beethoven’s ecstatic quartet in E flat Major, Op. 127.

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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in C Major, K. 465, “Dissonance”

• Juri Seo: Respiri
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  • Salina Fisher: Heal

• Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: String Quartet No. 4, Oasis

• Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127