BIO

Founded in 2019, the Tuuli Quartet celebrates the music of contemporary and classical composers as a tool for building community and strengthening human connection. 

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Tuuli has premiered multiple new pieces for string quartet, collaborated on interdisciplinary works, and featured the music of contemporary composers in recital halls, classrooms, community spaces, and even mine hoists across the Midwest. The quartet has been featured multiple times as guest artists at Michigan Technological University (MTU) and through the Superior String Alliance Chamber Players Concert Series. 

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The Tuuli Quartet has premiered works by Griffin Candey, Libby Meyer, Patrick Booth, and Stephen Rush. Additionally the Quartet has worked with MTU student composers and assisted in composition masterclasses by performing and recording MTU student compositions.

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The Tuuli Quartet was the ensemble-in-residence at the Upper Peninsula ChamberFest in 2019 and 2020. In their role as ensemble-in-residence at the Upper Peninsula ChamberFest the Quartet performed for and coached pre-formed chamber groups in 6th-12th grade who were preparing for Michigan State Solo and Ensemble. 

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As dedicated educators, the Tuuli Quartet regularly serve as faculty members at the Superior String Alliance Summer Music Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where they also maintain a year-round relationship with local public school music programs, offering outreach performances, masterclasses and coachings.

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Recent quartet projects have included a pedagogy lecture at an American String Teachers Association National Conference entitled “From Studio to Stage: Teaching Through a Feminist Lens.” In 2024 the Tuuli Quartet collaborated with TaMaMa Dance Company and also performed works by Dvorak and Beethoven in a self-produced tour that included concerts in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Madison, Wisconsin.

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