radio and on public television. The quartet also directs the Stringwood Summer Music Festival in Lanesboro, Minnesota. The group has commissioned many works for string quartet by composers Marjorie Merryman, Auguste Read Thomas, Tom Oboe Lee, David Cleary, and James Syler. Their current major project is performing and recording the complete quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich. Their Shostakovich cycle is a premiere for the Twin Cities. Awards and recognition Finalists 1992 Banff International String Quartet Competition 1992 National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Grant 2004 McKnight Award for Performing Artists 2010 Featured American Ensemble, CMA Magazine Summer 2010 2011 Chamber Music America Residency Initiative Grant Emphasis on Chamber Music Education The Artaria String Quartet has devoted its career to educating the next generation of chamber music performers and listeners. Their Chamber Music School ACMS features a comprehensive chamber music program of mentoring and performance with many of its young artists reaching national competitions and in 2011 being invited to perform at the Caramoor Festival on From the Top. Their summer chamber music program Stringwood founded in 2000 attracts talented high school students from across the country to study chamber music with Artaria. Discography The Artaria String Quartet has released five albums through their self-produced Aequbis Recordings, and one album of the String Quartets of David Cleary. References Chamber Music America Award recipients emusic downloads Baby Blue Arts, search artists for Artaria Artaria Audio & Video downloads at Instant Encore MPR spotlight on Artaria External links Artaria String Quartet Official website Artaria Chamber Music School ACMS Stringwood Chamber Music Festival Stringwood Saint Paul String Quartet Competition SPSQC Musical groups established in 1986 American string quartets 1986 establishments in Massachusetts