Feb. 24: Telegraph Quartet Presented by Numerica Performing Arts Center – Featuring the Music of Ludwig van Beethoven and George Rochberg
Available in high resolution at: www.jensenartists.com/artists-profiles/telegraph-quartet
Telegraph Quartet Presented by Numerica Performing Arts Center
Featuring the Music of Ludwig van Beethoven and George Rochberg
Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 7:30pm
Numerica Performing Arts Center | 123 N Wenatchee Ave. | Wenatchee, WA
Tickets and More Information
Telegraph Quartet’s New Album
20th Century Vantage Points Vol. 2: Edge of the Storm Out Now
“soulfulness, tonal beauty and intelligent attention to detail …[the Telegraph Quartet is] an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Wenatchee, WA – On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 7:30pm, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello), a group The Strad describes as having "precise tuning, textural variety and impassioned communication,” is presented in concert by the Numerica Performing Arts Center (123 N. Wenatchee Ave). .
Known for technical prowess and an appreciation for the history behind music, the Telegraph Quartet brings its fluid synchronicity and refined artistry to a program that embraces a sense of homage to those who inspired the works, featuring George Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1.
Of the program, the Telegraph Quartet says,
“With both of these quartets by Beethoven and Rochberg, we find each composer in a moment of their lives that could have broken them, only to have those events push them into deeper and broader realms of expression. First we have Beethoven, several years in the wake of his Heiligenstadt Testament, where his acceptance of his inescapable deafness galvanizes him to write works like his Op. 59 No. 1, one of three quartets that truly broke the bonds of a typical chamberwork in its length, complexity and orchestral scope. Then, more than a century-and-a-half later, we have George Rochberg, also in the wake of a personal tragedy - the premature death of his teenage son - turning back to that very music of Beethoven, Mahler and others before him to inspire this epic third quartet, one that diverges completely from his serialist beginnings and allows him the emotional breadth to express this loss.”
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.
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.
For Calendar Editors:
Concert details:
Who: Telegraph Quartet
Presented by Numerica Performing Arts Center
What: Music by Ludwig van Beethoven and George Rochberg
When: Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 7:30pm
Where: Numerica Performing Arts Center 123 N Wenatchee Ave. Wenatchee, WA 98801
Tickets and information: numericapac.org/events/the-telegraph-quartet
Description: The award-winning Telegraph Quartet, a group The Strad describes as having "precise tuning, textural variety and impassioned communication,” performs a lively concert featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1 and George Rochberg String Quartet No. 3.