Founded in Los Angeles in 2022, the Webern Quartet has been featured in The New Yorker, where they were praised as having “found the through line of Schoenberg’s personality.”

The Webern Quartet chose the name of Anton Webern, former student of Arnold Schoenberg, whose important string quartet oeuvre has been the starting point of the quartet. Next to their dedication to the works of the composers from the Second Viennese School, the Webern Quartet is known for its committed and intimate interpretations of works from the classical repertoire to newly written music. 

In 2023, the Webern Quartet held an extensive residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna where they performed the complete Schoenberg quartets at two concerts on the same day. Through their work in Vienna with Henk Guittart of the Schoenberg Quartet (which in its time coached with Eugene Lehner of the renowned Kolisch Quartet, Schoenberg’s preferred performers), the Webern Quartet is privileged to honor and continue an interpretive tradition of these quartets.

The quartet’s members are from Italy, Japan, South Korea and the US.


  • Benjamin Hoffman

    Violin

  • Chiai Tajima

    Violin

  • Alex Granger

    Viola

  • Stella Cho

    Cello

Violinist Benjamin Hoffman has been heard across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, collaborating with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Ani Kavafian, Soovin Kim, Yura Lee, Wolfram Christ, Jorja Fleezanis, and Gary Hoffman. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wiener Konzertverein, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, and the the Seoul Arts Center, and has performed at many summer festivals including Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, the Ojai Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. Benjamin is an enthusiastic concertmaster and has led much of the symphonic repertoire both with and without conductor. As an orchestral musician, he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the San Diego Symphony. Benjamin holds a doctorate from the Yale School of Music and was recently appointed to the faculty of Bowling Green State University.


Violinist Chiai Tajima enjoys a versatile career as a performer, mentor, and collaborator. She has performed in venues across the world such as Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Suntory Hall, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Musik-und Kongresshalle Lübeck and most recently held a residency at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna as a member of the Webern Quartet. She has held concertmaster and principal positions at numerous festivals including the Pacific Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Ojai Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony and Pacific Symphony. Chiai holds degrees from the Juilliard School and USC Thornton School of Music where she studied with Masao Kawasaki and Bing Wang. 
Hailed as “superb” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, Alex Granger has premiered numerous works as a soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician, working directly with some of the world’s foremost musicians and composers. Alex’s chamber music performances have been featured on NPR and in the New Yorker, and he has recorded on major labels such as Warner Classics. Alex regularly performs on different concert series around Los Angeles including Jacaranda, Le Salon de Musiques, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Noon to Midnight, and with Street Symphony, to name a few. Alex also performs as a guest with the Pacific Symphony, and is a member of the Long Beach Symphony. During his time at the USC Thornton School of Music, Alex had the honor of studying with Henry Gronnier, Bing Wang, and Midori Goto. Alex is on faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.


South Korean cellist Stella Cho made her London solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall at fifteen years old. Since then, she has performed both as soloist and chamber musician throughout the USA, UK, South Korea, and Europe in prestigious venues such as Royal Concertgebouw, Slovak Philharmonic Hall and Jordan Hall to name a few. Stella has participated in numerous renowned music festivals around the world including Yellow Barn, Ravinia Steans Institute, Aspen Music Festival, Casals Festival, La Jolla SummerFest, Banff Chamber Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and Piatigorsky International Cello Festival. She has also collaborated with eminent musicians such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Joseph Kalichstein, Joseph Silverstein, and Borromeo Quartet.
Stella currently divides her time between teaching and performing. She holds positions as cello faculty at Loyola Marymount University and Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, and she is also the director of Junior Chamber Music’s Los Angeles branch. As an active performer, she regularly performs in the SAKURA Cello Quintet, Webern Quartet,  and the self-conducted chamber ensemble Delirium Musicum, with whom she recently recorded their debut album with Warner Classics.