About Us
Serving the Greater Puget Sound area, the Queen Anne String Quartet consists of four classically trained musicians who come together to bring familiar classical favorites and your favorite hits from today's pop charts. We have a vast repertoire to help you celebrate your wedding, anniversary, birthday, or any other special event!
We are even able to accommodate most special requests. If you have a special song that will make your day really magical we will do everything we can to accommodate that request.
Anna Fuhrmann-Ferenczy - Violin
Anna's biography is coming soon!
Ross Amkraut do Porto - Violin
Ross began studying the violin when he was just five-years-old. His principal teachers include Lev Gurevich, a prodigy of Dmitri Shostakovich, Ayako Yonetani, a student of Dorothy DeLay, and Alvaro Gomez, a student of David Oistrakh.
Ross received his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Florida and his Master of Arts in Music in Violin Performance from the University of Central Florida, where he served as the concertmaster of the University Symphony Orchestra for two years. Ross has performed at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, across the United States, and throughout Central Europe. His ensemble experience includes performances with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gainesville Chamber Orchestra, the Gainesville Symphony, the Ocala Symphony. As a chamber musician, Ross was the first violinist of the Park Lake String Quartet and the violist in the Le Quartet Rouge String Quartet. Additionally, Ross was an associate conductor with the Florida Young Artists Orchestra, a community youth orchestra program serving the Greater Orlando area.
In 2015, Ross received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and he relocated to Seattle, Washington. Ross is currently a Finance Analyst focusing on Legal Research in Taxation at Amazon, is the Concertmaster of the Encanto Arts Orchestra, and is a cellist in the Amazon Symphony Orchestra. Outside of the performing arts, he is on the board of directors of the Miss Seattle Scholarship Pageant, an official preliminary in the Miss America Organization.
Eddie Nicholson - Viola
Eddie Nicholson has established himself as a self-taught viola player with a sound that can only be described by listeners as “… low notes as rich as chocolate... legato smooth as silk.” A musician who transcends many genres, Eddie has recorded and performed with a variety of music artists and groups including; The Dead Superheroes Orchestra, Violinist Hillary Hahn, Peoria Symphony Orchestra and two-time Emmy-award winning composer/ arranger Hummie Mann.
Eddie was raised between his mother living on the south side of Chicago and his father living in Northern Virginia. Eddie started his formal music education at the age of eight on the upright double bass. By the age of twelve, Eddie taught himself the viola (amongst other stringed instruments) where he made the official switch from the double bass to the viola. Eddie had earned a full music scholarship to Northeastern Illinois University, where he studied music performance and education. After a year at the university, Eddie had given away his music scholarship to become a full-time caretaker to a very ill family member until their passing a few years later.
Eddie says, “Through tragedy, heartache, living life by your own means, while owning your truth; can the translation of one’s art be felt.” Today, Eddie’s sound can be contributed through life experiences and collaborations with the Catalyst Collective Chicago (Dubstep music), viola mentor Patty Plombon and current music partner Jose Iñiguez.
Eddie can be seen performing alongside Jose Iñiguez of Encanto Arts as well as guest performing in and out of Seattle. Eddie currently sits on the board of directors with Encanto Arts as the Director of Musical Talent. In his free time, he enjoys performing collaborative Dubstep music with local DJ’s and other musical artists/groups in and around Washington state.
Erika Fiebig - Cello
Erika Fiebig is a Seattle native. She coaches the Bellevue Youth Symphony Premiere and Sinfonia cellos and local schools. Erika plays with Pacifica Chamber Orchestra and musicals throughout the region. For the past nine years she studied with master teacher Rajan Krishnaswami and is an apprentice teacher, occasionally covering the studio. She observes his teaching for several hours a week to improve her own. She trained at the Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institute for Books 1, 2, 3 and 6. Erika studied teaching through movement at Seattle’s Creative Dance Center Teacher Training Institute.
Erika began Suzuki cello lessons at 5, at 12 she began studying with renowned teacher Richard Aaron, currently faculty of Juilliard. With pre-professional training in high school, she went to Indiana University String Academy for three summers where she discovered fine chamber music performance under Rostislav Dubinsky. She was in Seattle Youth and Junior Symphonies. After high school Erika took private lessons and chamber music at Oberlin Conservatory while attending the college. She currently gives regular solo recitals of the major cello repertoire.
Erika aspires with each lesson she teaches to give her student the best physical technique while always exploring the reason behind it and the benefits of relaxed mechanics. She is passionate about teaching note-reading and music theory especially through movement so there is never a discrepancy between playing ability and music on the page. Erika teaches storytelling with melody including the student’s own emotions and interpretations. She uses her extensive background at elite institutions to explain musicianship and style correct for the era. Time in her studio is a launching pad to a career, school years of advanced playing, or lifelong enrichment from intimate knowledge and ability in a fine art.