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.
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 the 2002 Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for one of the best chamber music recordings in 2001