Strobe Quartet Strobe, formed in 2016, is an award-winning oboe quartet (oboe, violin, viola, and cello), receiving grants from Chamber Music America, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, InterMusicSF, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Strobe’s mission to expand the repertoire for quartet has resulted in six new works and a CD, and performances in places as varied as Herbst Theater and San Quentin.