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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The Tuuli Quartet has performed in recital halls, classrooms, community spaces, and even mine hoists across the Midwest. They have premiered works by Griffin Candey, Libby Meyer, Patrick Booth, and Stephen Rush, and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with the TaMaMa Dance Company and other artists. The quartet has been frequently featured as guest artists for concert series in Houghton, MI (Michigan Technological University, MTU), Marquette, MI (Superior String Alliance Chamber Players), Chicago, IL (Bridgeport Music Collective), Madison, WI (First Unitarian Society Noon Musicale), and Ann Arbor, MI. 

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As dedicated educators, the Tuuli Quartet maintains a year-round relationship with several public school and non-profit organization music programs by offering outreach performances, masterclasses, and coachings. In 2021 they presented a lecture at the American String Teachers Association National Conference entitled “From Studio to Stage: Teaching Through a Feminist Lens.” The quartet regularly serves as faculty members at the Superior String Alliance Summer Music Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and are frequent clinicians at the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Music Makers Program. The Tuuli Quartet has been the ensemble-in-residence at the Michigan Technological University as well as the Upper Peninsula ChamberFest in Marquette, MI.