Fall 2003 marked the beginning of a two-year appointment as Artists’-in-Residence at Indiana University’s South Bend campus.

During the 2002-2003 season, the ensemble served for a second year as Resident Quartet at The Juilliard School. The Avalon Quartet has been in residence at the Hartt School of Music where the ensemble worked extensively with the Emerson Quartet, and previously held a similar residency with the Vermeer Quartet at Northern Illinois University. The Avalons have served as quartet in residence for the 2001 Texas Christian University/Van Cliburn Piano Institute, and in the 1999-2000 season, the ensemble served as the first Ernst Stiefel Foundation String Quartet in Residence at the Caramoor International Music Festival Center for Music and Art. The members of the Quartet have worked with major artists including Henry Meyer, Jaime Laredo, Leon Fleischer, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalish, and Michael Tree, and members of the Orion, Cleveland, La Salle, Juilliard, and Tokyo string quartets.

Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Quartet’s numerous honors include top prize at the 2000 International Music Competition of the ARD in Germany, First Prize, the Channel Classics Prize, and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival Prize at the 1999 Concert Artists Guild Competition., and the Grand Prize at the 1998 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The ensemble has also won awards the 1998 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the 1999 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. In 1997, the Quartet participated in Isaac Stern’s Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. As a result, Mr. Stern invited the Avalon Quartet to perform in the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Encounters in Jerusalem and in March 2000 presented the ensemble’s Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall. The Quartet made its New York debut on the Alexander Schneider Series at the New School in 1998.

The Quartet’s live performances and conversation have been featured on Chicago’s WFMT-FM, New York’s WQXR-FM and WNYC-FM, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, Canada’s CBC, Australia’s ABC and France Musique. The Channel Classics label released the Avalon Quartet’s debut CD, Dawn to Dusk, in February 2001 to critical acclaim. The Quartet’s CD was honored with a Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award as one of the best chamber music recordings of 2001.