Winners of the 2018 Astral Artists National Auditions, the Vera Quartet is currently the String Quartet in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. The quartet has received Grand Prizes at Plowman and Yellow Springs chamber music competitions and awards from the M-Prize and Wigmore Hall International competitions.
Formed in 2015, the quartet has worked with the Pacifica Quartet and has also have been mentored by members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Cleveland, Brentano, Orion, and Tokyo quartets, as well as Atar Arad, Mauricio Fuks, and Peter Stumpf.
The Vera Quartet is an official selection of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition.