Performance April 19, 2026
The Erinys Quartet wonderfully features Elizabeth Stewart, violin, Joosep Reimaa, violin, Marija Räisänen, viola, and Stergios Theodoridis, cello. Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. Since Autumn 2023 Erinys has been the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA (USA).
At the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition in 2023 they were awarded the Audience Prize Award of the City of Bad Tölz, as well as the Esterházy Foundation Special Prize for best interpretation of a Haydn string quartet. They also won the Bronze Medal at the 2024 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.
In the 2025 season the Erinys Quartet will present concerts throughout the United States and Europe, including debuts at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. They will also be giving concerts around the United States as part of Curtis on Tour performing with pianist Michelle Cann, violist Roberto Díaz, and cellist Peter Wiley. They have also been featured in festivals and concert series such as the Mimir Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas and theFestival Groba in Ponteareas, Spain.
The Erinys Quartet will provide a rich, adventurous and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.
Tickets are $30 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.
The audience is invited to participate in a question and answer program with the artists in the concert hall following the concert.
Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with the Pacific Conservatory of Music. For more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 559-786-8587 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.