Described as "full of energy and vitality" by Joel Luks of CultureMap, Quartus Chamber Players is a Houston-based chamber music ensemble dedicated to making classical chamber music more widely accessible by bringing intimate and educational performances to the community. Founded in 2010, the group quickly made waves in the active Houston music scene and has been presenting performances of diverse programming and ensembles ever since.
Quartus regularly collaborates with other arts organizations and incorporates acclaimed Houston musicians into its programming. These collaborations include multiple sold-out performances with the Houston Chamber Choir and two subscription performances with Aperio, Music of the Americas. Quartus has been featured in Houston Community College Chamber Music Series, Margaret Alkek Williams Crain Garden Performance Series at the Methodist Hospital, and Noon Concert Series at Travis Park United Methodist in San Antonio, Texas. In addition, Quartus is a frequent guest on The Front Row, a premier arts news radio program on Houston Public Radio. Quartus in Recital was introduced in 2013 as a way to feature one or two of the members of Quartus Chamber Players and bring an even more intimate setting to our chamber music concerts.
In addition to its regular concert series, Quartus Chamber Players also developed an educational outreach program to supplement its goal to enrich and enliven the community. Believing in bringing chamber music to the classroom as an important step in cultivating future generations of artists and audiences, Quartus in the Classroom, was introduced almost as soon as the group was formed. Through the program, Quartus reaches around one-thousand students a year. In 2011, Quartus began its partnership with Aperio, Music of the Americas, a fellow Houston chamber music organization, to broaden the reach of the Classroom program, and beginning in fall of 2012, Quartus joined the roster of Young Audiences of Houston to further this effort.
