Award-winning Tesla Quartet—a talented quartet comprised of award-winning artists Ross Snyder and Michelle Lie on violins, Edwin Kaplan on viola, and Serafim Smigelskiy on cello—recently released its second album, Joy & Desolation, on Orchid Classics in collaboration with celebrated and acclaimed Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein.

The album, which was created to emphasize the idea of contrast, celebrates the duality of light and darkness, joy and despair, isolation and inclusion, through carefully curated works from Mozart, Christian Alexander, John Corigliano, and Carolina Heredia.

The Tesla Quartet released its debut album, Haydn, Ravel, and Stravinsky, on Orchid Classics. The record features performances of Ravel’s String Quartet in F major; Haydn’s String Quartet in C major, Op.54 No.2; Stravinsky’s Concertino for String Quartet; and three works by Ravel newly arranged for string quartet by Tesla violinist Ross Snyder: Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, Menuet antique, and Menuet in C sharp minor.

Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire.

The quartet performs regularly across North America, with recent international appearances in Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Notable festival appearances include the 10th Joseph Haydn String Quartet Festival at the Esterházy Palace in Fertőd, Hungary, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival.