Sirius Quartet

Sirius Quartet combines exhilarating repertoire with unequaled improvisational fire. These conservatory-trained performer-composers shine with precision, soul and raw energy, championing a forward-thinking, genre-defying approach. 

Since their debut concert at the original Knitting Factory in New York City, Sirius has played some of the most important venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Beijing Music Festival, the Cologne Music Triennale, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Stuttgart Jazz, Musique Actuelle in Canada, the Taichung Jazz Fest — Taiwan’s biggest jazz event — and many others. 

Sirius continues their commitment to musical innovation with original works by its own members, pushing beyond the conventions of string instruments by incorporating gripping improvisations and an undeniable modern groove. In 2019, they premiered their new program and album New World, a politically-charged work that explores themes of immigration, discrimination, and social change. The album was released August 23, 2019 on ZOHO Records. The album and its program is both an impassioned lament for the state of a nation and beyond, and a beautiful and hopeful call to action. 

In the fall of 2022, Sirius made their Carnegie Hall debut premiering new works from their Navona Records PLAYING ON THE EDGE series, of which Gramophone Magazine writes, “On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble and contemporary music specialists.” They also performed several of their own original works on the program. 

For the past 8 years, Sirius has curated and run the Progressive Chamber Music Festival in NYC and Munich, featuring like-minded musicians and ensembles who blur genre lines and challenge preconceived ideas of what chamber music can be, including David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg, Theo Bleckman and Ben Monder, Craig Taborn, Mat Maneri, Billy Martin, Mark Feldman, and Erik Friedlander, among many others.