Adrian Steele – violin
Phoenix Avalon – violin
Devin Moore – viola
Joshua McClendon – cello
Haydn: Quartet Op. 20/5
Billy Childs: Quartet No. 4
-intermission-
Webern: Langsamer Satz*
Mendelssohn: Quartet Op. 80
* not on the evening program
PRESENTED BY STEPHEN REYNOLDS & SUSAN OSBORNE
ABOUT THE CONCERT SPONSOR - Stephen Reynolds and Susan Osborne are longtime members of the NC State community and devoted advocates for education, music, and the arts. Stephen is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy at NC State, an award-winning educator and distinguished astrophysicist who also performed professionally as a violinist and now serves as President of Chamber Music Raleigh’s Board of Directors. Susan is Associate Professor Emerita in NC State’s College of Education, where her work focused on special education and the preparation and mentorship of educators. For many years, Stephen and Susan have generously supported CMR as donors, concert sponsors, volunteers, and steadfast champions of intimate live music in the Triangle.
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Sunday, November 8, 2026
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2110 Blue Ridge Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607
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ISIDORE STRING QUARTET
Since its Banff victory, the Isidore String Quartet has appeared in major cultural centers across North America and Europe, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, Amsterdam, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, and Zurich. The ensemble has collaborated with leading artists including James Ehnes, Jeremy Denk, Anthony McGill, and members of the Miró, Brentano, and Juilliard String Quartets.
The Isidore String Quartet is one of the most exciting young ensembles on the international chamber music stage. Formed at The Juilliard School in 2019, the New York City-based quartet won the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022 and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023, quickly establishing itself as a major new voice in the string quartet tradition.
The quartet takes its name from violinist Isidore Cohen, an early member of the Juilliard String Quartet, and carries forward that lineage with a fresh and searching spirit: approaching established works as if they were brand new, and new works as if they already belonged to the canon. Its members—violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon—have been praised for playing that is refined, flexible, intensely communicative, and deeply unified.
As part of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s esteemed Sights & Sounds on Sundays series, the Isidore String Quartet brings the vitality of a new generation to one of chamber music’s most enduring forms—revisiting, rediscovering, and reinvigorating the string quartet with clarity, imagination, and joy.