Chamber Music News

Violist Joseph Skerik has joined the Vega String Quartet, following founding violist Yinzi Kong who leaves the Quartet after over 30 years to pursue other musical adventures. Skerik studied at the Yale School of Music, the Cleveland Institute, the Paris Conservatory and Interlochen Arts Academy. He has performed at Festivals including the Ravinia Institute, Heifetz Chamber Music Seminar, Highlands-Cashiers Festival, Perlman Music Program, Aspen Music Festival, and the Lake George Music Festival. Joseph is a Young Arts Merit Violist, a prize-winner at the American Viola Society Competition and was most recently awarded 3rd prize at the Oskar Nedbal Viola Competition in Prague. He is the co-founder of Viridian Strings, a chamber music series in Northwest Lower Michigan, and recently appeared at the 2023 Vivace Music Foundation.

The Vega (http://www.vegaquartet.com/) is Quartet in Residence at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where their unique residency is dedicated to creating new generations of passionate and educated music lovers who will cherish and support this great art forever. The Residency is sponsored by the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta (https://chambermusicsociety.emory.edu/) , the largest and most active organization of its kind in the Southeast.