Founded in 2001, the La Catrina Quartet has a triple mission: to work closely with living composers in order to promote the performance of new music, to promote Mexican and Latin- American art music and to perform the masterworks of the string quartet repertoire. Its members have played as soloists with a variety of orchestras in Mexico and the United States and given recitals in Japan, England, the United States, and Mexico.

One of the quartet’s most important achievements is the publication by Arsis Press of Our Hands Were Tightly Clenched, a string quartet written for them by composer Zae Munn, which they premiered in Chicago’s College of Performing Arts, September 2003. They have recorded works by Mexican composer Germán Romero, under the Quindecim label, and collaborated with several other artists, including on a recording of Mozart’s clarinet quintet with renowned Cuban clarinetist Alfredo Valdés-Brito.

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