HIP Quartet

The HIP Quartet — Dr. Chandler Fadero and Chazlen Rook, violins; Joseph Messick, viola; and Cheyenne McCoy, cello — is Oklahoma Baroque Orchestra's resident string quartet, committed to historically informed performance across the full sweep of the string quartet repertoire. From the Classical elegance of Haydn and Mozart to the nationalist fervor of Dvořák and Smetana, the quartet brings to each work the rhetorical specificity, tonal nuance, and performance practice awareness that historical inquiry makes possible — without sacrificing the immediacy that makes chamber music a living art.

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The quartet also takes a particular interest in recovering neglected corners of the repertoire, including the legacy of ensembles like the Zoellner Quartet, whose work helped shape American concert life in the early twentieth century. In this, the HIP Quartet embodies a conviction central to OBO's mission: that looking carefully at the past is one of the most vital things a performing ensemble can do.