The Chiara String Quartet, hailed as “vastly talented, vastly resourceful, and vastly committed to the music of their time” by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will return to Orcas Center for their first main stage performance.

The quartet includes Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and Gregory Beaver, cello. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 5. The quartet will also give a brief outreach performance at 4 p.m. at The Lower Tavern on the same day.

Song selections include Haydn’s Quartet in C Major, Op. 74, No. 1; Jefferson Friedman’s String Quartet #2; and Brahms’ Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1.

The Chiara Quartet’s performances have been described as “luminous,” “searing,” (New York Times) “soulful,” and possessing a “potent collective force” (Strings Magazine).

The quartet has been artists-in-residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 2005. The group has trained and taught at The Juilliard School, mentoring for two years with the Juilliard Quartet, as recipients of the Lisa Arnhold Quartet Residency from 2003-2005.

Tickets are $25, $17 Orcas Center members, and $11 students at www.orcascenter.org or 376-2281.