Founded in Los Angeles in 2022, the Webern Quartet has quickly established itself as one of the most compelling young ensembles on the international chamber music scene. The quartet has been featured in The New Yorker, where they were praised for having “found the through line of Schoenberg’s personality,” and in Strings Magazine, which highlighted their groundbreaking Arnold Schoenberg Center residency in Vienna and recording partnership with Etcetera Records.

Named after Anton Webern, the quartet centers its artistic identity around the music of the Second Viennese School. Alongside this core focus, the Webern Quartet is recognized for its deeply committed, intimate interpretations spanning from the classical canon to newly written works, bringing clarity and immediacy to both established and modern repertoire.

In 2023, the quartet held an extensive residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, culminating in a historic performance of Schoenberg’s four string quartets presented across two concerts on a single day. This project marked the beginning of an ongoing relationship with the Center, including an invitation to return for a highly anticipated engagement in 2027. Their subsequent 2025 release of the complete Schoenberg string quartets on the Belgian label Etcetera solidified their reputation as leading interpreters of this repertoire. The project was informed by a direct pedagogical lineage: studies in Vienna with Henk Guittart of the Schoenberg Quartet—himself a pupil of Eugene Lehner of the Kolisch Quartet, Schoenberg’s preferred ensemble—allowing the Webern Quartet to carry forward a powerful interpretive tradition. The landmark recording was praised by American Record Guide as a “superb” performance with “everything laid out with clarity and conviction,” noting that the quartet performed with a "ghostlike power" and sounded “uncannily like people speaking.”

Beyond the concert hall, the Webern Quartet is committed to the intersection of art, wellness, and community advocacy. They maintain a close partnership with Santa Monica's dnj Gallery, performing three annual concerts in conjunction with exhibitions designed to bring therapeutic awareness to chronic illnesses and health conditions. Through these intimate performances, the quartet harnesses the healing power of chamber music to support patient-artists, medical professionals, and the wider public.

Looking ahead, the quartet continues to expand its ambitious artistic vision with an active touring schedule of over 30 performances across the upcoming season. The ensemble will return to Europe to perform in Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium, centered around recording the works of Alban Berg and Anton Webern in Belgium with Etcetera Records. This second album will complete their recorded catalogue of the Second Viennese School—a monumentally challenging feat achieved by only a select few quartets in the last century. Concurrently, the quartet will complete their performances of Beethoven's profound late string quartet cycle, juxtaposing these masterworks with their Second Viennese School counterparts.

The quartet’s members hail from Italy, Japan, South Korea, and the United States, bringing a diverse cultural perspective to a shared artistic mission grounded in refinement, curiosity, and expressive depth.