Spokane String Quartet For the next concert of its current season, the Spokane String Quartet, composed of four esteemed musicians, all members of the Spokane Symphony, Mateusz Wolski, Amanda Howard-Phillips, Jeannette Wee-Yang and Helen Byrne, showcases music both new and old. The group performs one of just two string quartets by German Romantic era composer Max Bruch, who mainly wrote for orchestras or solo instruments. Complementing Bruch’s rich melodies, the quartet shifts to two familiar contemporary composers: Philip Glass and Caroline Shaw. Glass’ String Quartet No. 5 was written to accompany Bela Lugosi’s 1931 Dracula and has been described as both energetic and tender. Shaw, meanwhile, has been honored with both a Pulitzer (at age 30, she was the youngest music recipient) and Grammy for her work. The quartet takes on Shaw’s Beethoven-inspired “Blueprint.”