Recipient of a 2008 Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Program grant, the Bryant Park Quartet is dedicated to presenting the spectrum of the string quartet repertoire to a wide audience.

Based in New York City, the BPQ has performed as soloists with the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, and in recitals at Lincoln Center’s Paul Recital Hall, the Des Moines Art Center’s Levitt Auditorium, the Staller Center for the Arts Recital Hall at Stony Brook University, Azusa Pacific University’s Munson Hall, Biola University’s Crowell Hall, and on the South Country Concert Series in Bellport, NY. In an effort to reach a uniquely diverse audience, the BPQ has also presented recitals in art galleries, such as the Nassau County Museum of Art and the Seaport District Cultural Association’s Space Gallery in lower Manhattan; in outdoor concerts at Bryant Park; and in community centers and in private house concerts.

As invited teaching artists at Azusa Pacific, Biola, and Cornell Universities, the BPQ has led masterclasses and seminars, in addition to coachings and lessons. Their strong convictions about the importance of community and school education has led them to share their music with thousands of school children in rural Kentucky and Ohio under the auspices of New Performing Arts, Inc. and the Darke County Center for the Arts, and in the city of Des Moines, IA for which they were featured on Channel 12 News. The BPQ has also developed residencies aimed at introducing chamber music concepts to the string students in the Port Jefferson and Hewlett-Woodmere Public School Districts on Long Island, NY and in the West Des Moines Community Schools in West Des Moines, IA.

Formed in 2006, The Bryant Park Quartet has been coached by members of the Brentano, Borromeo, Cavani, Cleveland, Emerson, and Juilliard String Quartets, Itzhak Perlman, Colin Carr, and Kathy Murdock. The BPQ has participated in the Chamber Music Workshop at The Perlman Music Program, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and The Mannes Beethoven Institute.