The Red Line Sax Quartet is comprised of students from the Eastman School of Music, a school of the University of Rochester and America’s “Hottest School for Music” according to the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek How to get into College guide. Since the group began playing together in the Spring of 2008, Red Line has made a splash at the nation’s top chamber music competitions, winning 1st prize in the 2009 Fischoff and MTNA National Chamber Music Competitions, as well as making their orchestral debut alongside heralded saxophonist Branford Marsalis and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. In addition, RLSQ was recently given Eastman’s 2009 John Celantano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music. Today, the Red Line Sax Quartet is one of the world’s only chamber music groups to perform full programs from memory, making their live performances uniquely engaging and communicative.  They have collaborated with numerous composers, included composer Frank Ticheli who describes their quartet as “among the very best.”