Press
BBC Music Magazine
One of the greatest quartets of the last 100 years
The New York Times
“Excellent and fast-rising.”
The New Yorker
“The young American String Quartet of the moment"
Washington Post
“The Dover Quartet’s Kennedy Center debut shows why they should be on must-hear list…..a triumph.”
Wall Street Journal
“Among the many performances I attended at the 2013 Savannah Music Festival was an evening of dance. However, it wasn't the free-form choreography that captured my attention, but the musical accompaniment—a masterly nuanced performance of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" string quartet played by the Dover Quartet...”
Philadelphia Inquirer
“A sound so distinctive as to be identified within mere minutes.”
National Post
“Confident, sinewy playing of distinctive sound and ample nuance...brilliantly done...terrific quartet."
Strings Magazine
"To the outside observer, the Dover Quartet’s rise to the top looks practically meteoric. Since winning all four prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the group has performed more than 100 concerts a year in locations spanning four continents.
The New York Times
“The Dover Quartet won new fans for its sublime playing.”
Calgary Herald
“The Power of the Dover Quartet to communicate a work with awesome sophistication borders on the spiritual… Unmistakeable glowing sound...delicious sonority.”
The Florida Times-Union
“It was one of those performances that you remember forever… The Dover String Quartet gave one of those performances that makes you glad for music… When they played their first note, I just about fell out of my seat.”
Montreal Gazette
“These young musicians play with remarkable attentiveness and an astonishingly even tone, as if they were four limbs of one instrument.”
Santa Fe New Mexican
“A quartet to reckon with…for me, this was string quartet nirvana.”
Performance Today
"I fully expect them to emerge as one of the brightest lights of their musical generation and to bring the highest artistic standards to their work for many years to come...” – Fred Child
Musical Toronto
“The quartet has already reached the top echelons of chamber music performance.”
Buffalo Daily Public
“Say you are sitting in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall on UB’s North Campus on Wednesday evening, April 22, 2015, listening to the Dover Quartet performing a program that includes works of Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. And sitting next to you is the Dover’s cellist, Camden Shaw, whom you are watching perform along with his colleagues, violinists Joel Link and Brian Lee, and violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt...”
San Jose Mercury News
“[Schubert’s] String Quartet in D minor, Op. 103, came across with brilliance, élan and some of the most agreeable gradations of tone we've heard in months. But this was a mere taste of what was to come.”
Colorado Public Radio
“The Philadelphia-based Dover Quartet visited Denver on Wednesday for a Friends of Chamber Music concert and stopped by the CPR Performance Studio beforehand to perform music by Mozart and Dvořák...”
Berkshire Eagle
“First, a fellow chamber-music lover told Christian Steiner, "They’re absolutely fantastic." You "should really pay attention to them." Next, "they" -- the Dover String Quartet -- won the grand prize and three special prizes in the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Curious about the group, Steiner called one of the competition judges he knows. The judge said that in a strong field, the Dover was overwhelmingly dominant...”
The New York Times
“An excellent, taut reading.”
Chicago Tribune
"the Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet — they're that good. Expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, deep musical feeling and a palpable commitment to communication made their performances satisfying on many levels."