Recipient of a 2008 Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Program grant, the Bryant Park Quartet is engaged in communities across the country 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; and in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, 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; and live on KFMG radio in Des Moines, IA.

As the first Ensemble-In-Residence at the Stony Brook University Community Music Program, the Bryant Park Quartet have spearheaded a new initiative to bring a high level of chamber music to Stony Brook's students and community.  The BPQ has been invited as teaching artists to give masterclasses and seminars, in addition to coachings and lessons at Azusa Pacific, Biola, and Cornell Universities. The quartet has also led rehearsals and coached ensembles with the Greater Des Moines (IA) Youth Symphonies and the Santa Barbara (CA) Youth Symphony.  The BPQ has developed residencies aimed at introducing chamber music concepts to students in the Port Jefferson and Hewlett-Woodmere Public School districts on Long Island, NY and in West Des Moines (IA) Community Schools.  The quartet has also shared their music with thousands of 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.

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, Kathy Murdock and Roger Tapping. The BPQ has participated in the Chamber Music Workshop at The Perlman Music Program, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and The Mannes Beethoven Institute.