June 14 & 15: Telegraph Quartet is the 2026 Artist-in-Residence with Gretna Music Performance and Free Family Event
Photo of the Telegraph Quartet by Lisa Marie Mazzucco available in high resolution here.
Award-Winning Telegraph Quartet Returns to Mount Gretna
for 2026 Artist Residency with Gretna Music
Concert on June 14
Family Event on June 15
Tickets & More Information
“full of elegance and pinpoint control” – The New York Times
Mt. Gretna, PA – The Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello), a group described by The San Francisco Chronicle as having "a wonderful boldness of spirit,” are returning to Mount Gretna this summer as the 2026 Artists-in-Residence with Gretna Music. The group will give a performance on June 14, 2026 at the Mount Gretna Playhouse (200 Pennsylvania Ave) and present a free interactive program dedicated to children and families on June 15, 2026 in the Hall of Philosophy (212 Gettysburg Ave.).
The Telegraph Quartet formed in 2013 with an equal passion for standard and contemporary chamber music repertoire. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape” and “powerfully adept… with a combination of brilliance and subtlety,” the Telegraph Quartet was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.
Following a highly successful Artist Residency with the Telegraph Quartet in 2025, Gretna Music have invited the ensemble back for a second Artist Residency, featuring a summer performance and another opportunity to gather with and inspire the local community through educational outreach and musical interactivity with children and their families. On June 14, 2026, the Telegraph Quartet will perform a program that blends music from the traditional classical canon with contemporary composition, as well as highlighting the influences of folk music and cultural heritage that impacted these works in unique and memorable ways. The program includes Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2; Derrick Skye’s American Mirror, Part 1, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1.
Haydn’s Quartet in C Major evokes a spirit of ambition and experimentation with musical form. The intricacy and deeply expressive nature of the melodies across its four movements reflected Haydn’s engaging instincts as a composer. Composer Derrick Skye says, "American Mirror reflects on the coming together of cultures in our society, which consists of many generations and descendants of refugees, immigrants, and slaves, and how intercultural collaborations are essential to the well-being of American society.” The piece infuses influences from West African, North African, and Eastern European vocal techniques and ornamentations with open harmonies commonly found in Appalachian folk music. Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 is the first of his “Razumovsky” quartets, nicknamed for Prince Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna who commissioned Beethoven to write these pieces, asking him to include a Russian theme in each of the Quartets.
In August 2023, the Telegraph Quartet released 20th Century Vantage Points: Divergent Paths, the first in a trilogy of recordings on Azica Records exploring the string quartets of the first half of the 20th century – an era of music that the group has felt especially called to perform since its formation. Divergent Paths features two works that (to the best of the Quartet’s knowledge) have never been recorded on the same album before: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major and Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7. The Quartet’s new album, 20th Century Vantage Points: Edge of the Storm is out now on Azica Records. Read the press release online here. This second volume of the trilogy examines music from the turbulent war years of 1941-1951 and features a thoughtfully curated program of works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Benjamin Britten, and Mieczysław Weinberg.
More about Telegraph Quartet: The Quartet has performed in concert halls, music festivals, and academic institutions across the United States and abroad, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Masters Series, and at festivals including the Chautauqua Institute, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Emilia Romagna Festival. The Quartet is currently the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Michigan.
Notable collaborations include projects with pianists Leon Fleisher and Simone Dinnerstein; cellists Norman Fischer and Bonnie Hampton; violinist Ian Swensen; and the St. Lawrence Quartet and Henschel Quartett. A fervent champion of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire, the Telegraph Quartet has premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Robert Sirota, and Richard Festinger.
Beyond the concert stage, the Telegraph Quartet seeks to spread its music through education and audience engagement. The Quartet has given master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Collegiate and Pre-College Divisions, through the Morrison Artist Series at San Francisco State University, and abroad at the Taipei National University of the Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Telegraph has also served as artists-in-residence at the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Camp, SoCal Chamber Music Workshop, and Crowden Music Center Chamber Music Workshop. In November 2020, the Telegraph Quartet launched ChamberFEAST!, a chamber music workshop in Taiwan. In fall 2020, Telegraph launched an online video project called TeleLab, in which the ensemble collectively breaks down the components of a movement from various works for quartet. In the summers of 2022 and 2024, the Telegraph Quartet traveled to Vienna to work with Schoenberg expert Henk Guittart in conjunction with the Arnold Schoenberg Center, researching all of Schoenberg's string quartets.
For more information, visit www.telegraphquartet.com.
Telegraph Quartet: Gretna Music 2026 Artists-in-Residence - Public Events
Telegraph Quartet
Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 3pm
Mt. Gretna Playhouse | 200 Pennsylvania Ave | Mt. Gretna, PA
Derrick Skye – American Mirror, Part 1
Franz Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in C Major, Op. 54 No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1
Tickets: www.gretnamusic.org
Free Family Event with the Telegraph Quartet
Monday, June 15, 2026 at 10am
Hall of Philosophy | 212 Gettysburg Ave. | Mt. Gretna, PA
Free and Open to the Public