Chamber Music America 2025 Album of the Year: "Insects & Machines"
Album of the Year: Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung, by Jasper String Quartet
Released in October 2023, The Jasper String Quartet’s Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung will receive the Album of the Year Award. Celebrated as one of the preeminent American string quartets of the 21st-century, the Jasper String Quartet is known for evocatively connecting the music of underrepresented and living composers to the canonical repertoire. The Quartet received CMA’s Cleveland Quartet Award in 2012, and since the ensemble’s launch in 2006, has commissioned more than 20 works in its nearly 20-year history. 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.”