Cypress String Quartet Archives

Quartet spends final weeks performing together in Sitka

by KCAW Staff | Jun 6, 2016 | The Morning Interview

Violinists Cecily Ward and violist Ethan Filner, founding members of the Cypress String Quartet, joined us in the studio with Zuill Bailey, artistic director for the Sitka Summer Music Festival. The Cypress String Quartet performs again Wednesday June 8, 6:30 p.m. at The Mean Queen. Downloadable audio Read More

Sitka Summer Music Festival starts with Beethoven

by KCAW Staff | Jun 3, 2016 | Local News, Syndicated

The Sitka Summer Music Festival began with gusto this week. For the first half of the month-long chamber music residency, the Cypress String Quartet will be performing all of Beethoven’s string quartets. These performances are extra special because they are among the last for the San Francisco-based group, which has been performing for two decades. Read More

String quartet to play Beethoven’s works

by KCAW Staff | Jun 1, 2016 | The Morning Interview

The Sitka Summer Music Festival is here! Tom Stone and Jennifer Kletzel of the Cypress String Quartet, a San-Francisco based quartet, talks about playing the entire Beethoven string quartet cycle during their two weeks in Sitka and their final two weeks playing together as a group. Downloadable audio. Read More

Music on the house

by KCAW Staff | Jun 30, 2014 | The CorvidEYE

Sunday marked the final public concert of the 43rd annual Sitka Summer Music Festival, titled "Brunch with Schubert." Barbara Hames hosted the event at her Halibut Point Road home, and a sold-out crowd enjoyed a full concert and post-concert brunch buffet of crab cakes, moose sliders and cream-and-berry-stuffed french toast. Read More

Cypress String Quartet

by KCAW Staff | Jun 26, 2014 | The Morning Interview

One of the founding members of the Cypress String Quartet, cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, and Sitka Summer Music Festival director Zuill Bailey visit the KCAW studio to talk about Schubert and the quartet’s upcoming...