About the Quartet

Formed in 2025, Gestalt Quartet brings excellence in performance and passion in musical storytelling, driven in its search for the ways in which music connects us as human beings. Accomplished individually, its members come together from unique backgrounds and experiences to share their love for chamber music with each other and with their audiences. Gestalt Quartet believes that the string quartet medium is a metaphor that can represent the best of humanity - at once unified and diverse, textured and blended, full of beauty and complexity.

Concerts

  • First Presbyterian Church

    Sunday, April 19, 2026 | 4:00pm

    First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia

    Ludwig van Beethoven
    String Quartet in G Major Op. 18 no. 2

    Jessie Montgomery
    Source Code

    Johannes Brahms
    Clarinet Quintet in B minor

    Balint Karosi, clarinet

  • Pastorius Park Concerts

    Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | 7:30pm

    Pastorius Park
    8177 Roanoke St, Phila. PA 19118

    FREE!

    More information here

Meet the Quartet

  • Alex Link is a distinguished violinist and violist, praised for his musicality and refined, expressive tone. He has been a prizewinner in numerous national and international competitions, including First Prize at the Music Teachers National Association National Competition, Second Prize at the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition, and First Prize at the Johansen International Triennial Competition.

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  • Philadelphia-area native Shannon Merlino began violin lessons at nine years of age. Immediately upon receiving her rental instrument (and before having had a lesson), she declared that she would become a professional musician, and the rest, as they say, was history.

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  • Praised for his "beautiful tone" and "exceptional quality of nobility in his playing," Filipino violinist and violist Lorenzo Raval is acclaimed for his versatility and dedication to the numerous aspects of his instruments - as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher.

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  • Bio Coming Soon.

Contact Us

gestaltquartet@gmail.com

Philadelphia, PA

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