For 20+ years, this acclaimed New York City-based contemporary music quartet has conceived, commissioned, produced, and performed rich multimedia concert works and released several acclaimed albums. Noted as  “vital and brilliant,” “downtown’s reigning string quartet” (The New Yorker), and “one of the most exciting quartets around” (Strad Magazine), the quartet invigorates the contemporary music scene with exuberance, intensity, imaginative programming, and exceptional artistry.

ETHEL has premiered more than 150 works by groundbreaking composers—many of them written for ETHEL—and has collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists. In honor of women’s history month,  ETHEL will bring “Blue Dress,” their new evening-length program  that pays homage to women who are making their musical mark on the 21st century, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Lainie Fefferman, Mary Ellen Childs, Anna Clyne, Pamela Z, Paola Prestini and ETHEL’s own Dorothy Lawson. The concert features a visual montage by projection designer Grant MacDonald (Esperanza Spalding’s D+ Evolutionworld tour, Black Mountain Songs at BAM and the Barbican). The centerpiece of Blue Dress is Julia Wolfe’s “Blue Dress for String Quartet,” commissioned by ETHEL.