• Dvorak - String Quartet No. 12 in F "American" (second movement)
• Mozart - String Quartet No. 17 in B-flat "Hunt" (first and second movements)

Formed in 2003, the Muse String Quartet brings together four dynamic musicians with a passion for chamber music. Individually, they have performed at the Banff, Norfolk, Kuhmo, Aspen, Tanglewood, Chautauqua, and Great Lakes Music Festivals. They have toured in North America, Europe, and Asia and given master classes at numerous universities. Currently, they serve on the faculties of Oakland University, Eastern Michigan University, and the University of Michigan.

Locally, the Muse String Quartet is enjoying a busy season. In addition to their appearance on Live From FM 91!, highlights include performances at Oakland University, Eastern Michigan University, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cranbrook Art Museum, and Detroit's Scarab Club among others. In addition to performing, the Quartet will teach chamber music master classes at several local high schools and universities.

Elizabeth Rowin, violinist, balances a career in orchestral, chamber music, and solo performance with an active teaching schedule. She has served on Oakland University¹s violin and chamber music faculty for over a decade, is a member of the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra, and is Concertmaster of the Warren Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Rowin earned performance degrees from Mannes College of Music and the University of Michigan. Her teachers include Ani Kavafian, Shirley Givens, Paul Kantor, and Felix Galamir. In 2001, Ms. Rowin premiered and recorded Karl Boelter¹s Concerto for Violin. The recording, on the Albany label, features Ms. Rowin with conductor Paul Freeman and the Czech National Symphony. The performance was recently broadcast on National Public Radio. Ms. Rowin has been a featured chamber musician at the Norfolk, Lancaster, Cape May, and Great Lakes Music Festivals. She also performs with Chamber Music at the Scarab Club and the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings.

Kyoko Kashiwagi, violinist, was born in Switzerland and raised in Tokyo where she began playing the violin at the age of three. After studying with Koichiro Harada of the Tokyo String Quartet, she came to the United States to continue her studies at the Juilliard School. As a founding member of two quartets, she has won numerous first prizes and awards at competitions in the United States as well as in Japan and Canada. She has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, Germany, France, and Switzerland. She has given master classes at Penn State, University of Maryland, SUNY at Buffalo, University of Cincinnati, Governor's School (S.C.), Kent State University, University of Akron, and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

Eva Stern, violist, is on the faculty at Eastern Michigan University. Previously she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Viola at Bowling Green State University. Ms. Stern holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where she was a student and teaching assistant of George Taylor. She completed her undergraduate studies with Walter Trampler and Daniel Phillips at Purchase College, State University of New York. Stern is a former member of the Richmond Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra, and has performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra during their summer seasons. Also in demand as a chamber musician, she has performed with Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, Chamber Music Ann Arbor, and the Richmond-based new music ensemble Currents, and was a founding member of the Grace Street Chamber Players. With her husband, pianist Joel Schoenhals, she has performed and taught master classes across the United States. The Stern-Schoenhals Duo was welcomed as Artists-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts for two summers, and has been featured in several broadcasts on National Public Radio. For the 2001-02 season, the pair received a touring grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Katri Ervamaa, cellist, has performed widely in the U.S., her native Finland, and throughout Europe. She is equally at ease performing traditional and non-traditional music; her repertoire ranges from standard solo works and chamber music to new compositions, electro-acoustic pieces and free improvisation. As a member of the Owla String Quartet, Dr. Ervamaa has appeared in numerous international music festivals, including the Bowdoin, Orlando, Norrtäälje, Haute Limousine and Kuhmo Festivals, as well as in concerts in six different European countries, Taiwan and the U.S. She has given critically acclaimed solo recitals in Finland and the U.S. She is a founding member of Brave New Works, a group dedicated to the performance and promotion of new music, and Timescape, a nine-member free improvising group. Dr. Ervamaa received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. She also holds Bachelor of Music and Master Music degrees from Northern Illinois University. Her primary teachers include Erling Blööndal Bengtsson, Marc Johnson, Kazimierz Michalik and Lauri Laitinen, as well as Andrew Jennings and the Vermeer and Borodin String Quartets. Dr. Ervamaa is on faculty at the University of Michigan Residential College, where she is the head of the College¹s Music Department. She also teaches cello at Bowling Green State University and cello and chamber music at the School for the Performing Arts - Ann Arbor. Dr. Ervamaa has been on the faculty at Eastern Michigan University and given master classes at Northern Illinois University, Lewis & Clark College, University of Puget Sound, Tufts University and the Oulu Conservatory in Finland.