The Argus Quartet (New York, NY) has quickly emerged as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile ensembles, winning First Prize at both M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. Since then, Argus has performed at venues and festivals including Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, the Ravinia Festival, the Albany Symphony’s American Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. 

Argus has worked with composers Martin Bresnick, Chris Cerrone, Ted Hearne, Garth Knox, Andrew Norman, Christopher Theofanidis, and Augusta Read Thomas, among others. Recent commissions include new quartets by Katherine Balch, Donald Crockett, Eric Guinivan, Thomas Kotcheff, and Juri Seo. Argus’s recording of Seo’s works for string quartet was released in May 2019 on Innova Recordings. The Quartet has received grants from the Koussevitsky Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in support of their commissioning efforts.

The Quartet has served as the Fellowship Quartet in Residence at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of the Brentano Quartet, and held the position of Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School, where they worked closely with the Juilliard String Quartet. They have also held residencies at New Music on the Point, working with the JACK Quartet, and at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts as the Ernst Stiefel Quartet in Residence.