MoCA\CT Presents: Jasper String Quartet

  Date: Saturday, March 13, 2027 · 7:00 PM

  VIP: $110 · includes the pre-concert VIP reception and premium reserved table seating

  General Admission: $75

  Senior: $58

MoCA\CT Members receive a 10% discount on tickets.

VIP reception 6:00 PM · Concert 7:00 PM · MoCA\CT, 19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT

One of America’s most celebrated quartets — and its most imaginative.

A great quartet doesn’t just play the notes — it makes you hear why they matter. The Jasper String Quartet, praised by Gramophone as “flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced,” has built its reputation on programs that connect the great canon to the living composers shaping music right now. In MoCA\CT’s galleries, surrounded by contemporary art and seated steps from the players, you’ll experience that artistry the way it lands best: up close, where the drama is impossible to miss.

Recipients of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Jasper String Quartet was named CMA’s 2025 Album of the Year for Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung — music The Strad called “sonically delightful and expressively compelling.” At this performance, they preview their 2026 release Lamenting Earth, a luminous meditation on humanity and the natural world. Expect an evening as intellectually alive as it is profoundly moving — the work of one of the preeminent American quartets of the twenty-first century.

THE VIP EXPERIENCE

Arrive at 6:00 PM for an exclusive pre-concert reception in Gallery A — a private hour among the contemporary art with complimentary wine, craft cocktails, and a selection of artisanal hors d’oeuvres. Then settle in for the performance at your own reserved, lamplit bistro table. Wine, food, and the best seats in the house — the concert at its most luxurious.

ABOUT JASPER STRING QUARTET

Celebrated as one of the preeminent American string quartets of the twenty-first century, the prizewinning Jasper String Quartet is hailed as being “flawless in ensemble and intonation, expressively assured and beautifully balanced” (Gramophone). The Quartet is highly regarded for its “programming savvy” (ClevelandClassical.com), which strives to evocatively connect the music of underrepresented and living composers to the canonical repertoire through thoughtful programs that appeal to a wide variety of audiences.

A recipient of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award (2012), the Quartet’s playing has been described as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad). The ensemble has released eight albums, including its most recent release, Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung, named CMA’s 2025 Album of the Year. Strings Magazine praised the Quartet on the album as “intensely dramatic throughout demonstrating both their advocacy of new music and their transcendent mastery.” The Quartet’s 2017 release, Unbound, was named by The New York Times as one of the year’s 25 Best Classical Recordings.

The Jasper String Quartet is passionate about connecting with audiences beyond the concert hall and has performed hundreds of outreach programs in schools and community centers across the US. The Quartet is the Professional Quartet-in-Residence at Temple University’s Center for Gifted Young Musicians and is also Director of the annual Saint Paul Chamber Music Institute. In addition, the Quartet is regularly invited to conduct short-term residencies at colleges and universities, and in partnership with presenters. Past residencies include those at Trinity University (San Antonio), Michigan State University, BYU Idaho, Swarthmore College, Oberlin Conservatory, Credo Music, Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, and the University of Iowa.

The Quartet is Artistic Director of Jasper Chamber Concerts, a series in Philadelphia dedicated to encouraging curiosity, community, and inclusivity through world-class chamber performances. With decades of experience in designing and presenting educational programs, the Quartet added its Community Connections program to the series in 2023, which brings performances to underserved schools and community centers throughout the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area. Additionally, the Quartet continues its residency at Arlington High School in New York State, now in its fourteenth year. Generously supported by the Howland Chamber Music Circle, the Quartet performs and works with the school’s orchestras and chamber music ensembles twice yearly.

ABOUT MoCA\CT PRESENTS

MoCA\CT Presents is the flagship concert series of the Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut (MoCA\CT) — bringing Grammy and Emmy winners and internationally acclaimed artists to perform within our contemporary art galleries, here in Fairfield County. It is rare for a town the size of Westport to host artists of this caliber, and rarer still to experience them this close: the kind of evening you would expect in Manhattan, offered minutes from home. World-class artistry, intimately staged — Fairfield County’s premier destination for contemporary art and live performance.

Refund & Weather Policy

Tickets are transferable to another concert of your choice or other individuals. If a concert is cancelled due to weather conditions, tickets will be valid for the rescheduled date. Please consider the price of unused tickets as a donation. No refunds will be issued.