Ivalas Quartet
Tuesday | January 13 2026 | 2 pm
TUESDAY MATINEES
Violinists Reuben Kebede and Tiani Butts, violist Marcus Stevenson and cellist Pedro Sánchez
Works by Haydn, Bartók, Ravel and Jessie Montgomery
Hailed by The Strad for playing with “tremendous heart and beauty,” the Ivalas Quartet spotlights past and present BIPOC composers alongside the standard repertory. Among the many composers whose works they have championed are Eleanor Alberga, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Carlos Simon, Alvin Singleton and George Walker. The Ivalas Quartet won a Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant in 2023 and served as the 2022-23 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at Caramoor. In 2022, the quartet won the grand prize at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition, as well as first prize at the 2019 WDAV Young Chamber Musicians Competition.
Ivalas Quartet are the 2025-26 Kaufman Fellows.
The Kaufman Fellows program is fully underwritten by Rose Hirschel.
