"The DaPonte is a first-rate string quartet. Their imagination,skill and dedication brought my first string quartet vibrantly to life!"
  --David Del Tredici

"It is seldom that one gets to hear such top-notch string quartet-playing these days, but at the Daponte String Quartet's Weill Recital Hall concert, you were treated to just that."
 --Anthony Aibel

"The DaPonte String Quartet attracted a larger than expected audience to the Barn Gallery [Ogunquit, ME] Saturday night for the third concert of the Chamber Music Festival.... They played the Mozart String Quartet in C Major (K.465), Gershwin's Lullaby for String Quartet and the Schubert String Quartet in D minor ("Death and the Maiden"), published after the composer's death.... The performance in the gallery was out of the ordinary, full of precision, balance and musical excitement...."
  --Christopher Hyde

"Those who braved subzero cold to hear the DaPonte String Quartet at State Street Church in Portland ... were rewarded by one of their most memorable concerts of recent years. The Maine-based Quartet has been outstanding for some time, but violist Kirsten Monke ... has added new dimensions of richness and volume. [The] Haydn "Rider" Quartet ... was an indication of what was to come--crisp, perfectly articulated and with a thoroughly modern sound."
 --Christopher Hyde

"The fearless DaPonte is at the top of its game."

  -Strings Magazine



Clockwise, from left: Lydia Forbes, violin;
Ferdinand 'Dino' Liva, violin; Kirsten Monke, Viola;
Myles Jordan, cello.

The DaPonte String Quartet is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission,
an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts,
an independent agency of the federal government.




The DSQ's summer concerts at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
in Boothbay, ME have been sell-out performances.


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