Formed in 2022, Chimera Quartet consists of Jakob Giles, Max Greenwald, Joey Piellucci, and Ascher Taylor-Schroeder. All members served as graduate teaching assistants for the guitar program at the University of Louisville under Dr. Stephen Mattingly. They are teachers or students holding positions at the Youth Performing Arts School, University of Texas at Austin, Sacred Heart School of the Arts, and Cleveland Classical Guitar Society, and hold positions on the board of the Louisville Guitar Society. Chimera Quartet is interested in performing a wide variety of repertoire, especially new music. The group collaborated with composer Isaac R. Smith to workshop and premiere his piece Same or Different in 2023 and have received commissions from Matthew Cochran (Go 2025) and Javier Contreras (Las Hojas del Canelo 2026). They have also done Kentucky premieres of Modinha e Lundus and Music of The People by Joao Luiz and Childhood and Wrecked by Thomas Flippin. Recent engagements have included the 2023 & 2024 University of Louisville Guitar Festival, the University of Buffalo International Guitar Research Conference, Murray State University, and Eastern Kentucky University. They are currently focusing on works by living composers and seeking new collaborations.