The Euclid Quartet at IUSB

Formed 1998; in residence since 2007

The city's resident quartet: The Euclid Quartet was formed in Cleveland in 1998 — a graduate quartet out of Kent State, named for Cleveland's Euclid Avenue — and since 2007 it has been the faculty string quartet-in-residence at Indiana University South Bend, where its members teach and coach chamber music at the Raclin School of the Arts. The residency is a working one in the city's concert life: the quartet has performed as soloists with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra (the concert of October 22, 2023, in Indiana University's own news record), and its twenty-fifth-anniversary album, Breve, was released with a South Bend concert on January 31, 2024. Its membership in the current record is Jameson Cooper and Aviva Hakanoglu, violins; Luis Enrique Vargas, viola; and Justin Goldsmith, cello. IUSB's wider music program — the campus that also held the Toradze Studio — is carried at this size; the university's institutional record stands in the Schools record.

Sources:

1. Indiana University news releases and Jacobs School of Music record — the quartet's formation in Cleveland in 1998 and its faculty quartet-in-residence standing at IU South Bend since 2007; the October 22, 2023 appearance as soloists with the South Bend Symphony.
2. Parker Artists roster (2026) — the current membership: Cooper, Hakanoglu, Vargas, Goldsmith.
3. Euclid Quartet record — the twenty-fifth-anniversary album Breve and its January 31, 2024 South Bend release concert.