The foursome, who won the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, succeed the Callisto Quartet in the position
Yale School of Music (YSM) has named the Terra Quartet as its fellowship quartet-in-residence for the 2024–25 academic year. The group succeeds the Callisto Quartet. As part of its duties, the Terra Quartet will provide coaching to undergraduate chamber ensembles at the Department of Music, while also receiving the mentorship of the Brentano Quartet, YSM’s faculty quartet-in-residence.
The Terra Quartet is made up of violinists Harriet Langley and Amelia Dietrich, violist Chih-Ta Chen and cellist Audrey Chen. The group won the grand prize and gold medal at the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the Christine and David Anderson Career Development Prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition the same year. In 2023 the players came second at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and third at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.
Dietrich and Langley initially formed a quartet at the Juilliard School in 2017. The group was reconstituted as the Terra Quartet in 2020, with Audrey Chen joining in 2022 and Chih-Ta Chen in 2023.
As YSM’s newest quartet-in-residence each member will receive a stipend, and the fellowship is renewable for a second year.
Terra Quartet cellist Audrey Chen said the members of the Brentano Quartet ‘have been mentors of ours’ even as individual musicians. ‘We admire them for their playing but also for who they are as people,’ she said. ‘They seem to have such a wonderful rapport,’ and form communities wherever they go. Violinist Amelia Dietrich said the Brentanos are the group she and her colleagues in the Terra Quartet have viewed as a model since their group was formed.
Watch the Terra Quartet perform Beethoven’s String Quartet op.18 no.1 at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition:
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