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Avalon String Quartet

Top Songs By Avalon String Quartet

5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 3, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Andante cantabileAvalon String Quartet

Listen to String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabile by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor: II. Andante cantabileAvalon String Quartet

Listen to String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: II. Assez vif et bien rythmé by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: II. Assez vif et bien rythméAvalon String Quartet

Listen to String Quartet No. 4 "Illuminations": VII. Mouth of Hell by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

String Quartet No. 4 "Illuminations": VII. Mouth of HellAvalon String Quartet

Listen to 5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 5, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. Andantino by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 5, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. AndantinoAvalon String Quartet

Listen to 5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 4, Shortnin' Bread. Allegro by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 4, Shortnin' Bread. AllegroAvalon String Quartet

Listen to 5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 2, Clementine. Andantino by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 2, Clementine. AndantinoAvalon String Quartet

Listen to 5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 1, Calvary. Adagio vigoroso by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

5 Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet: No. 1, Calvary. Adagio vigorosoAvalon String Quartet

Listen to String Quartet in G Minor, H. 226: IV. Recitative. Broadly - Fugue. Moderately Fast, Yet with Broad Sweep by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

String Quartet in G Minor, H. 226: IV. Recitative. Broadly - Fugue. Moderately Fast, Yet with Broad SweepAvalon String Quartet

Listen to String Quartet in G Minor, H. 226: III. Slowly, Rhapsodically by Avalon String Quartet, see lyrics, music video & more!

String Quartet in G Minor, H. 226: III. Slowly, RhapsodicallyAvalon String Quartet

Latest Release

Listen to Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet by Avalon String Quartet

ALBUMPrice & Sowerby: Music for String QuartetAvalon String Quartet

More albums from Avalon String Quartet

Listen to Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works by Andy Baker Orchestra, Andy Baker & Avalon String Quartet

ALBUMLeo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early WorksAndy Baker Orchestra, Andy Baker & Avalon String Quartet

Listen to Matthew Quayle: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 by Avalon String Quartet

ALBUMMatthew Quayle: String Quartets Nos. 1-3Avalon String Quartet

Listen to Illuminations by Avalon String Quartet

ALBUMIlluminationsAvalon String Quartet

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Listen to Ravel: String Quartet in F Major - Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters" by Avalon String Quartet

ALBUMRavel: String Quartet in F Major - Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters"Avalon String Quartet

About Avalon String Quartet

Hometown

Chicago, IL, United States

Formed

1995

Genre

Classical

The Avalon String Quartet, based in Chicago, has extended its reach across the U.S. and beyond, with performances at major venues and festivals in Europe. The group, serving as quartet-in-residence at Northern Illinois University, has a varied résumé of educational accomplishments as well. The quartet's members are violist Anthony Devroye, violinists Blaise Magniere and Marie Wang, and cellist Cheng-Hou Lee. The group came together at the Norfolk (Connecticut) Chamber Music Festival in 1995. In 2000, it made its recording debut with the album Dawn to Dusk. In 2021, the group issued the album Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions and Other Early Works, returning in 2024 with an album of quartets by Sowerby and Florence Beatrice Price.

Members of Avalon String Quartet include, or have included, Cheng-Hou Lee and Anthony Devroye.