The Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as "sonically delightful and expressively compelling" (The Strad) and as having played "flashingly, brilliantly, [and] gloriously, with excellent interplayer communication" (The Santa Fe New Mexican). The communication comes naturally as J and Rachel are married and all four members are close friends, living within a block of each other in New Haven, Conn. Rock and roll changed Robert Dick's life when he was seven years old. He heard the piccolo solo in Bill Haley's "Rockin' Robin" and began to study the flute. Now, nearly forty years later, he's a virtuoso. Critics have called him a "rare wizard of the flute" and have said that his playing makes James Galway sound like the kid next door.