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Maya Enstead

Cellist and founding member of the Katarina String Quartet, currently Graduate Resident Quartet at The Juilliard School.

Jul 6, 2026

19:20
But do you think there are other benefits that maybe we wouldn't think of immediately of you all being together as a unit for so long, for years on end?
19:29
That's a great question.
19:31
I think it's easy for us to take for granted the amount of time that we get to spend with each other.
19:38
But, you know, spending hours rehearsing with each other is kind of like, you know, being a family and really getting inside each other's minds and seeing the ways that everyone works.
19:49
And we've really found that our differences are really our strengths as a group.
19:53
Like every rehearsal, we've got four different perspectives that are coming together and we're tossing around ideas.
19:59
And we really get to see like over time how our process will change and evolve and how the music we play will change.
21:02
Did this experience though in Northern Michigan as part of the Soundgarden project push you beyond your previous boundaries at all? And if so, how did they...

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