The Ives Quartet has thrilled audiences around the world with an eclectic repertoire and passionate performances. The Quartet has established a reputation for passion, precision, and provocative programming, winning accolades for playing that shows both super-refinement and visceral, rock-and-roll intensity.  Per the San Jose Mercury News, "Whether the group was playing Beethoven, Dvorak, or Quincy Porter, the 20th-century composer whose works are becoming an Ives specialty, the music felt thoroughly absorbed, idiomatic, perrformed from the inside out"