String Quartet No. 4: “Insects and Machines” has been nominated for a JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year! Thank you to the Jasper String Quartet and Sono Luminus for your collaboration in bringing this piece and album to life and a major congrats to the other nominees: Deantha Edmunds, Gabriel Dharmoo, Keiko Devaux, and Linda Catlin Smith! 

Released in October 2023, The Jasper String Quartet’s Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung will receive the Album of the Year Award…Insects and Machines is Jasper Quartet’s eighth album and the first commercial release of Fung’s first four quartets. It received notable critical acclaim, including from Strings Magazine that praised the album for its “intensely dramatic energy… demonstrating both their advocacy of new music and their transcendent mastery.”