Blue Marble is a bold and exploratory new ensemble based in the Bay Area. Through their thoughtful programming, the ensemble hopes to facilitate a connection with wide-ranging repertoire, both familiar and new. The quartet brings together violinists Mateo Garza and Paul Kim, violist Lorenna Garcia, and cellist Griffin Seuter who began playing together during their graduate studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Formed in 2025, Blue Marble is dedicated to presenting music of the highest caliber from all eras. Their programming includes contemporary music that grapples with the issues of the time, warhorses of the chamber repertoire, and works that resonate with their collective identity. Blue Marble is currently supported by Insight Chamber Music through a fiscal sponsorship. Blue Marble is grateful for recent mentorship with Professor Jennifer Culp, formerly of the Kronos Quartet, in the formation and realization of their debut program. The ensemble and their debut program is so named for one of the first pieces they played together–Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae–which opens with the striking image of the Earth from space. In the spirit of that image, each of Blue Marble’s programs trace a thread of common humanity, spoken or unspoken, that connect the pieces they program together.

In their free time, they get way too competitive playing board games and enjoy cozy movie nights together.