Balourdet String Quartet

The Balourdet String Quartet is a four-member ensemble (two violins, viola, cello) whose members include Angela Bae, Justin DeFilippis, Benjamin Zannoni and Russell Houston. It won the Fischoff competition's 2020 senior string gold medal. In 2024 it received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award. It was previously the Graduate Quartet in Residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Its Avaloch Farm Music Institute ties include serving as the first ensemble-in-residence for Avaloch's Educational Artist Residency and appearances in 2023 and 2024 residency listings.