The Lafayette String Quartet at Phillip T. Young recital hall, January 2022 at UVic (l-r): Joanna Hood, Sharon Stanis, Pam Highbaugh Aloni, Ann Elliott-Goldschmid. (Credit: UVic Photo Services)
The Lafayette String Quartet at Phillip T. Young recital hall, January 2022 at UVic (l-r): Joanna Hood, Sharon Stanis, Pam Highbaugh Aloni, Ann Elliott-Goldschmid. (Credit: UVic Photo Services) The University of Victoria is announcing today that the internationally acclaimed Lafayette String Quartet (LSQ), the only all-female ensemble in the world still with all four original members, is ending their time as an ensemble after more than 35 years of performances and three decades of teaching with UVic's School of Music. The multiple award-winning quartet (violinists Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni) will take their final bow as a group in August 2023. The Lafayette String Quartet and UVic have created musical history for over 35 years. Supporting the world's only all-female string quartet with its original members is a distinct rarity, and we are extremely proud of their accomplishments. In addition to their internationally acclaimed performance history, the quartet has transformed the teaching of chamber music at UVic, training and mentoring a generation of over 400 string musicians and developing the master's of music in string quartet performance-the only program of its kind in Canada. -Acting Vice-Provost Susan Lewis who, as former dean of UVic's Faculty of Fine Arts and former director of the music school, has known the LSQ for 20 years With over a thousand performances worldwide and a dozen albums behind them, the LSQ has played a pivotal role within Greater Victoria's extended music community and Canada's chamber music legacy.
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