Antigone String Quartet

The Antigone String Quartet is a quartet based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have been studying at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music with the internationally renowned Ariel Quartet since 2020. In the past members of the quartet have received coachings and masterclasses from members of the Calidore String Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet. Recently, the Antigone Quartet worked with the members of the Miro Quartet at a public masterclass at the Ascent International Music festival. The Antigone Quartet has also worked closely with composers to deliver premier performances of their works. These include Patrick Wickliffe’s “Transformations,” incidental music for CCM’s Lysistrata + The Trojan Woman by Jay Mobley, and the upcoming premier of a major new work by composer Issac Creager. The Antigone String Quartet was a prize winner in the 2022 CCM Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the inaugural Glass City Chamber Music Competition. Recent highlights of the Antigone String Quartet include a residency at the Southern Illinois Music Festival where they toured Southern Illinois with a program of Haydn, Walker, Mendelssohn, and Schubert. This past summer the Antigone String Quartet was also part of the resident ensemble at Musica Malicorne, a part of the larger festival Musica le Mans, where they performed a chamber reduction of Carmen as well as multiple chamber galas at the historic Chateau de Malicorne-sur-Sarthe.