About

The ASTRAEUS Collective was formed out of our mutual desire to reinvigorate the world of classical chamber music. From performing in decommissioned cotton mills to orchid greenhouses and Brooklyn brownstones, you can always expect a visual and auditory feast of delights when at an ASTRAEUS experience.

Created in San Francisco in 2018, the founding members of ASTRAEUS met as students at the renowned San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where they honed their skills under some of the world’s best chamber musicians. They have performed on stages for thousands with Evanescence and Lindsey Stirling, in revered concert halls like Stanford's Bing Auditorium and San Francisco's Herbst Theater, and in unusual spaces like orchid nurseries, jazz clubs and more. ASTRAEUS also created their Commissioning Initiative, in which they sought to specifically sponsor the commission of a work by an LGBTQ+ composer: Derek Tywoniuk was the inaugural winner with his string quartet ‘never (always) not’.

Music

ASTRAEUS plays exciting music from a variety of time periods, including Romantic and Contemporary classical work, folk music arranged for string quartet, and sometimes even covers of our favorite pop divas! An ASTRAEUS show usually has an undercurrent theme such as Decay, Nature, Clash etc, and the pieces we choose to program all fit into that theme for the evening. We love to perform music by Caroline Shaw, Astor Piazzolla, the Danish String Quartet, and Schubert in particular.

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