Recent/upcoming events:

New CD Release!  The Cypress Quartet releases How She Danced, String Quartets of Elena Ruehr, on Feb 23 2010.

Read the reviews: Sequenza 21, New England Classical Voice, Audiophile Audition

Cypress Quartet commissions Ruehr’s Fifth Quartet, Bel Canto Quartet, based on Ann Patchett’s novel.

Premieres on February 26, 2010 Herbst
Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA, 8 pm

Also to be performed at the Montalvo Arts Center, San Jose, Sun Feb 28th 3 pm. For more info, go to: http://montalvoarts.org/events/cypress_feb28/

East Coast premiere March 17, 2010, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 8 pm

Stephen Salters and David Zobel at the Kennedy Center sing Ruehr's new set of songs based on the poetry of Elizabeth Alexander on Wednesday, May 26th at 7:30PM. For more information and tickets click here.

Stephen Salters and the Lark Quartet perform Song of the Silkie at Stanford University, May 2nd as part of the A. Jess Shenson Recital Series.

Stephen Salters and the Biava Quartet perform Song of the Silkie at Rockport Chamber Music Festival on June 25th at 8:00PM.

Cantata Averno, based on the text by Louise Glück, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, April 2011

News:

2009 CD Release of Jane Wang considers the dragonfly and other works by Elena Ruehr with cover art by Miskai Kawai

See the recent article in Symphony Magazine.