About

The award-winning Arneis Quartet performs an eclectic range of chamber music including commissions of new works and interdisciplinary collaborations. Their critically acclaimed recordings feature “first-rate performances all round” (Gramophone).  The Quartet is known for playing with “a conviction that commands attention” (Fanfare) and “a unique collective sound which is as warm and full of sparkle as liquid gold.” (Boston Musical Intelligencer).

Arneis Quartet has recorded for Albany Records, Avie, AVS, Centaur, Navona Records, and Habitat Sounds, featuring the music of Pulitzer Prize-winners Susie Ibarra and Gabriela Lena Frank.  Their recording of Elena Ruehr’s Moving Shapes highlighted an “advocacy… of the kind composers can usually only dream of” (Gramophone).  Arneis launched the Kaisahan Initiative in 2022, creating projects and partnerships to explore diverse cultural traditions, environmental issues, and social justice. Through this initiative, the Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Susie Ibarra, EMMY® Award–winning interdisciplinary musician Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, and Guggenheim Fellow and Stanford University composer Jonathan Berger.

The members of the Quartet are on faculty at Boston University.  The Arneis Quartet is playfully named after a Piedmontese varietal; careful cultivation brought the ancient wine grape back from extinction. Formed in 2009 by alumni of Boston University, the Quartet has since performed throughout the United States, Canada, China, and Italy.

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-revised September 30, 2026; please discard versions retrieved before this date

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