Parhelion Trio

What is QQ at the UU?

QQ stands for Quarantined Quartet! And they’re coming to us at the UUFSB to mark the final concert of Le Petit Salon on April 12, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.

The Quarantined Quartet is a family guitar ensemble from Brooklyn, New York, made up of parents Elysa and Jason Hochman and their two sons, Joseph and Noah.

On March 21, 2020, during the first days of COVID lockdown, the family decided to call themselves the Quarantined Quartet and created an Instagram page to document their daily practice. What began as Practice Day 1 quickly became a lifelong commitment. Since that day, they have practiced together and posted a video every single day without missing one, a streak that now spans over six years and counting.

Through this daily ritual, the Quarantined Quartet built a global community, growing their page to over one million followers. What started as a simple practice log evolved into an international platform connecting audiences through music, consistency, and family. They have performed often on the Today Show and have a permanent spot at the Tavern on the Green in NYC on Sundays.

Long before becoming a global online ensemble, Elysa and Jason were already deeply rooted in music education. They are the founders and owners of the New York Guitar Academy, established in 2009, where they have trained thousands of students and built a community centered around musical excellence and lifelong learning.

Over time, the Quarantined Quartet developed a distinct sound blending Spanish classical, flamenco, and world music, alongside original compositions and creative arrangements. More than a performance group, the ensemble represents consistency, family, and the belief that music is a language best learned and lived together. Every performance is an invitation into a journey that began in lockdown and continues one day at a time.

Don’t miss this fabulous performance and celebration! Click below for tickets.

Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019

Parhelion Trio will be performing classic works by Debussy and Saint-Saens alongside exciting and beautiful contemporary originals written for the trio by Daniel Weymouth, Wendy Griffiths, Sunny Knable, and Daniel Felsenfeld. The concert will feature a WORLD premiere of ‘Rhapsody’—a romantic Rachmaninoff-influenced tour de force ending with a rousing tarantella—written for the trio by Peter Winkler. (parheliontrio.com)

Praised by The Strad magazine for their “effervescent” playing, Parhelion Trio – Sarah Carrier (flute), Ashleé Miller (clarinet), and Andrea Christie (piano) – is a New York City-based ensemble dedicated to bringing virtuosic, robust, and impactful contemporary music to diverse audiences. The Trio has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “ETHEL and Friends” Series. Parhelion is also the recipient of a 2018 New Music USA grant for their upcoming project Dark Matter: A Tribute to Vera Rubin, inspired by the life and work of the late astrophysicist.

It’s been said that Sarah Carrier combines “thoughtful musicality with virtuosity in her alternately energetic and delicate account of a flute line laden with light multiphonics and unusual timbres” [New York Times; Kozinn]. Ashleé Miller, has been praised for her rich “color and imagination” [NPR]. And pianist Andrea Christie is a versatile performing artist with a flair for late-romantic works and a passion for contemporary music.

The three formed the Parhelion Trio in 2010 at the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at Mannes College The New School for Music. Together, they were a semi-finalist in the inaugural M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition, the largest chamber competition in the world, and were offered a one-year management prize.

Le Petit Salon de Musique is honored to offer our audience a chance to see Parhelion Trio performing some of the world’s most beautiful music in an intimate and accessible setting.

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