Recent Rossetti highlights include performances at the Frick Collection in New York City, at San Francisco Performances, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, Music at Kohl Mansion, the Music Guild of Los Angeles, and at New York City’s 92nd Street Y with soprano Juliane Banse. They toured last season with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, appearing at the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts, the Wisconsin Union Theater, People’s Symphony in New York and the Community Library Friends of the Arts in Shirley, NY. Active guests on the summer festival circuit, the Rossetti have performed at Festival del Sole in Napa Valley, Spoleto Festival Italy, at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, in Mexico at the San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival, and at Maverick Concerts. In January 2008 the Quartet returned to El Paso Pro Musica for chamber concerts as well as the Spohr Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra with the El Paso Symphony led by Sarah Ioannides.

Other recent appearances include a tour in the Netherlands with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, their Lucerne Festival debut, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall during its inaugural season, the Casals Festival, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to name a few. This season the Rossetti appears at Russian River Chamber Music with flutist Eugenia Zukerman, returns to Music Guild of Los Angeles for concerts and outreach, and reunites with Yolanda Kondonassis at Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. They also appear at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, and at San Francisco State University.

Classical music organizations and fellow artists alike have noticed the Rossetti String Quartet’s brilliant artistry, resulting in various collaboration and residencies. Individual artists with whom the quartet has collaborated include Mr. Thibaudet, flutist Paula Robison and guitarist Pepe Romero. In addition to the group’s current residency at the Carlsen Center in Overland Park, Kansas, the Rossetti String Quartet also served as Artists-in-Residence at Caramoor and at the Ventura Chamber Music Festival.

Co-founded in 1996 by violinist Henry Gronnier and violist Thomas Diener, the Rossetti String Quartet is named after 19th century Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose artistic ideals about the use of color, poetry, and naturalism are embodied in the Quartet’s musicianship. Each member of the Quartet is an accomplished musical artist in their own right, and the aesthetic depth and insight each brings to the group helps create the intimate, provocative atmosphere that has become the Rossetti trademark.