Since 2000, the members of the Arianna String Quartet have been the full-time string faculty at UMSL, where they teach applied violin, viola, and cello, and coach student chamber music ensembles. The Arianna Quartet enriches the academic experience of students outside of the Music Department by visiting classes in physics, business, history, philosophy, art, and language to actively demonstrate the interdisciplinary connections between music and these seemingly disparate disciplines. In the community, the ASQ are ambassadors for UMSL, teaching an average of 40 instructional clinics each year at high schools throughout Missouri and surrounding states, presenting a performance and lecture series at KWMU called “First Mondays with the ASQ”, and maintaining a national and international presence as educators and performers.