The Girsky Quartet is on a mission to play all of the Beethoven quartets. Last season, the group’s Vashon Beethoven Quartet Project did just that. They performed six of the 15 quartets, and from 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 19, the group will play the six quartets in a progressive concert held at three of the island’s churches.

“We decided we wanted to learn and perform all of the Beethoven quartets,” said Rowena Hammill, cellist for the Girsky Quartet and co-founder of Vashon Chamber Music (VCM). “It’s something all of us wanted to do — to play all the quartets in our lifetime.”

Beethoven wrote a total of 15 quartets: Six are considered the early compositions, five are middle and six are late. Sunday’s event will both celebrate the completion of the first year — and the first six quartets — of the Vashon Beethoven Quartet Project and benefit the VCM’s programs.

The nonprofit puts on community, senior and children’s concerts. It also provides scholarships for the Vashon Island String Camp for string players ages 14 and up, which will run Aug. 9 to 14 at Camp Burton.

“We hope to raise money for the camp and to keep the Beethoven concerts going,” Hammill said.

The musical marathon will begin at 1 p.m. at the Presbyterian church, where the Girsky Quartet — with Hammill on cello and Seattle Symphony players Julie Whitton on viola, Natasha Bazhanov on violin and Artur Girsky on violin — will play the first two quartets; numbers three and four will follow at the Episcopal church and numbers five and six at the Methodist church. Each quartet will begin every hour on the hour and run for 30 minutes.

“We’ll play all afternoon and hope people can stop by and donate what they want,” Hammill said. “It’s Father’s Day; maybe have lunch and hear a quartet.”

The group will perform the middle quartets next season, and Vashon Chamber Music will hold a summer music festival at Vashon Center for the Arts in August.