Haven String Quartet

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Michelle Lee, Violin
Tina Lee Hadari, Violin
Netta Hadari, Viola
Elise Pittenger, Cello

During the 2009 San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival the young and talented Haven String Quartet commanded Bravos! and standing ovations. Their emotion-filled interpretations light up the intellects and hearts of our sophisticated audience. As an audience favorite, we are pleased they will join us again in 2010.

In 2004, violinists Michelle Lee and Tina Lee Hadari founded the Vinca Quartet and trained with the Takacs String Quartet in Boulder, Colorado, for three years. In 2006 they founded Music Haven, and in 2008 the quartet reformed under the name Haven String Quartet with the mission of educational enrichment and social revitalization through the study of music. Quartet members bring expertise and training from universities such as Yale, New England Conservatory, the University of Illinois, Southern Methodist University, Rice, and McGill.

The Haven String Quartet is the resident ensemble of Music Haven, a nonprofit organization that provides chamber music performances and free after-school music education programs for residents in the most marginalized neighborhoods of New Haven, Connecticut. In conjunction with these activities, the members of the Haven String Quartet regularly perform in other communities, providing engaging performances in traditional concert halls as well as reaching new audiences in non-classical venues.