20th Anniversary Competition Events
Junior Division - April 12, 2025
Senior Division - April 26, 2025
A FABULOUS experience!
-- Annie Fullard, Cavani String Quartet
Naumburg Chamber Music Award winner and Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Institute.
We loved being able to take part in something so special and uplifting to student musicians.
-- SPSQC prizewinner
Announcing the
20th Annual Competition
The Final Rounds of the 2025 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition (SPSQC) will take place next April in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Junior (HS) and Senior (Pre-professional) divisions will each feature the finest young string quartets from the U.S. and Canada. The Saint Paul String Quartet Competition (SPSQC) is open exclusively for String Quartets.
The SPSQC SENIOR DIVISION is open to U.S. and non-U.S. residents provided the age of each musician in the quartet is not more than 30 years on April 26, 2025. The SPSQC JUNIOR DIVISION is open to U.S. and non-U.S. residents not more than 19 years of age on April 12, 2025, and the person is not enrolled in a college degree program.
Our distinguished juries will be the Pacifica Quartet (Junior) and the Jerusalem Quartet (Senior)
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The Junior division will be live broadcast on April 12, 2025
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The Senior division will be live broadcast on April 26, 2025
APPLICATIONS DUE - FEBRUARY 19
Our quartet won Gold & Grand prizes and the Lift Every Voice prize at the Fischoff!!! A huge, huge, thank you to you and all the other organizers of the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition. Without our experience in St. Paul, we absolutely couldn't have done this. We really appreciate all that you have done!!"
-- SPSQC Gold Medalist Poiesis Quartet
I love SPSQC...it is truly a gem in our community... always amazing young string quartets
-- Laura Sewell. Cellist of the Lark Quartet & Artaria String Quartet. Bronze medal winner at the Banff International String Quartet Competition
2024 Senior Division Prizewinners
1st Prize – Katarina String Quartet (McGill Conservatory)
2nd Prize – Nox Quartet (New England Conservatory)
BIPOC Prize – Katarina String Quartet (McGill Conservatory)
Audience Prize – Mia Quartet (Univ. of Michigan)
2024 Junior Division Prizewinners
Gold Medalist – Elysian Quartet (Music Inst. of Chicago)
Silver Medalist – Quartet Meraviglia (Music Inst. of Chicago)
Bronze Medalist – ADEL String Quartet (Westwood HS, TX)
BIPOC Prize – Elysian Quartet (Music Inst. of Chicago)
Haydn Prize – ADEL String Quartet (Westwood HS, TX)
Audience Prize – Elysian Quartet (Music Inst. of Chicago)
2024 Junior Division Finalist Quartets
2024 Senior Division Finalist Quartets
2024 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition
Finalist Interviews
Junior Division
ADEL String Quartet
Junior Division
Amber String Quartet
Junior Division
Quartet Meraviglia
Junior Division
Elysian Quartet
Junior Division
Lucien Quartet
Junior Division
Lumen String Quartet
Junior Division
Vario Quartet
Senior Division
Forst Quartet
Senior Division
Katarina String Quartet
Senior Division
Mia Quartet
Senior Division
Nox Quartet
Senior Division
Trellis String Quartet
2024 SPSQC Jurists
Parker Quartet
The renowned Parker Quartet will be giving a free public masterclass and performance on Friday, April 12 in Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music. They will adjudicate the SPSQC Junior Division on Sat. April 13 in Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline University.
Chamber Music Masterclass
In Recital @ MacPhail
The renowned Heath Quartet will be giving a performance on Friday, April 19 as part of Schubert Club's Music in the Park Series. They will adjudicate the SPSQC Senior Division on Sat. April 20 in Sundin Music Hall on the campus of Hamline University.
In Concert @ Schubert Club
Heath Quartet
