Rossetti Quartet

Praised as a “vital force among chamber music ensembles,” the Rossetti String Quartet is renowned for its highly sophisticated, sensual sound and extensive range of colors. The Quartet’s compelling stage presence and fresh, innovative style has won its members a devoted following throughout the United States and Europe.

Highlights from recent seasons include San Francisco Performances, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Music Guild of Los Angeles, and an appearance at New York City’s 92nd Street Y with soprano Juliane Banse. The quartet has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and with the El Paso Symphony lead by Sarah Ioannides. Active guests on the summer festival circuit, the Rossetti Quartet has appeared at Brevard, Caramoor, Festival del Sole in Napa Valley, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Lucerne Festival, and Maverick Concerts. Internationally, they have toured in the Netherlands with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and appeared at numerous festivals, including the San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival in Mexico, Saint Riquier in France, and Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Individual artists with whom the quartet has collaborated include Mr. Thibaudet, flutist Paula Robison, flutist Eugenia Zukerman, guitarist Pepe Romero, and harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, with whom they have toured to Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts, the Wisconsin Union Theater, People’s Symphony in New York and the Community Library Friends of the Arts in Shirley, NY. In addition to the group’s former residency at the Carlsen Center in Overland Park, Kansas, the Rossetti String Quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence at Caramoor and at the Ventura Chamber Music Festival.

Co-founded in 1996 by violinist Henry Gronnier and violist Thomas Diener, the Rossetti String Quartet is named after 19th century Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose artistic ideals about the use of color, poetry, and naturalism are embodied in the Quartet’s musicianship. The aesthetic depth and insight each brings to the group helps create the intimate, provocative atmosphere that has become the Rossetti trademark.