The Zoellner Quartet Project with Honourable Alexandra Foley and music performed by Musicians of Ma’alwyck.

A lecture and performance reflective of America’s diverse musical heritage featuring the trailblazing musical group that toured throughout the United States in the early 1900s and helped stimulate public interest in classical music. During their illustrious career they performed for The King and Queen of the Belgians, Theodore Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, and the Cheyenne Indians.

The Honourable Alexandra Foley
Alexandra Foley is the great-granddaughter of Joseph Zoellner, Sr. who formed The Zoellner Quartet – America’s most celebrated string quartet in the first half of the 20th century performing over 3,000 concerts between 1904-1954.

In 2020 Foley learned of a substantial archive of Zoellner Quartet material at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and set about ‘resurfacing’ the story. Foley’s then 94-year-old mother was able to fact check and flesh out the characters and offer anecdotes before her passing in 2022. Scheduled for publication September 2023, The Lost Quartet is a book written by Alexandra Foley and edited by Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz that tells the story of this trailblazing musical group that toured throughout the United States in the early 1900s.