The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival is pleased to present for its final concert of it’s 23rd season, the Christopher Rex String Seminar Concert featuring the Rasa Quartet and one additional young artist quartet. This concert also showcases our faculty quartet: the Ariel Quartet.

The concert will be held Saturday, June 1st. The exact location will be announced soon!

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Catch two rising star string quartets, the Festival’s Beth Newdome Fellows, featured in concert along with the distinguished Ariel Quartet, culminating with all playing Mendelsohn’s miraculous Octet for Strings together.

Rasa Quartet

Rasa String Quartet finds their niche exploring the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another. Formed in 2019, the Boston-based ensemble consists of violinists Maura Shawn Scanlin and Kiyoshi Hayashi, violist Emma Powell, and cellist Mina Kim, who are graduates of the New England Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music, and Yale University.Rasa String Quartet are winners of the 2022 Associazione Europea Di Musica E Comunicazione International Chamber Music Competition (Italy,) the 2021 Music Teachers National Association Chamber Music Competition (ATL,) the 2020 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition (OH,) and were the 2022-23 ensemble in residence at Phillips Exeter Academy..  (learn more…)

Second Quartet TBD