Telegraph String Quartet to play at Minsky Recital Hall

The Telegraph String Quartet will play classic, contemporary and timeless music at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 2 at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine.

The quartet that formed in 2013 won the prestigious 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. The prize includes a performance at Carnegie Hall/Weill Recital Hall and a commissioned work by esteemed American composer Robert Sirota.

The group was the lone American quartet, and one of 15 worldwide, invited to showcase at the 2016 Biennale de quatuors à cordes. In 2014, the foursome earned the grand prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

The San Francisco area-based group — Eric Chin and Joseph Maile on violins, Pei-Ling Lin on viola and Jeremiah Shaw on cello — is committed to the standard repertoire and to contemporary and new music.

The Telegraph String Quartet’s CD of Webern, Britten and Kirchner will be released in 2017. Offstage, the group spreads its music through education and audience engagement. The musicians have given master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. The members also hold teaching positions, including with San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Music Program and Young Chamber Musicians in San Francisco’s South Bay.

Maine Public is the sponsor of the concert, a featured selection in the John I. and Elizabeth E. Patches Chamber Music Series. Attendees and performers are invited to a post-concert reception at Miller’s Café.

Tickets are $35 for adults and seniors and $10 for students. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit the CCA website. Also, to purchase tickets or to request an accommodation, call 581.1755.