Our Chamber Music season concludes Tuesday, April 12, with a concert featuring one of the hottest young chamber ensembles – the Calidore String Quartet. To add to the musical mix, they will be joined by our Palladium Chamber Players pianist, Jeewon Park. It is a must-see show!
This young group has already won more awards and prizes than lots of more experienced quartets. And they added another top honor – Calidore is a winner of the 2016 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and is the first North American ensemble to win the £20,000 award in the foundation’s history! For more information visit: http://www.bbtrust.com
Tuesday concert features Jeewon and Calidore performing Brahms’ Piano Quintet in f minor. Calidore will also be performing F. Mendelssohn’s String Quartet op. 44 no. 1 in D major and selections from J. S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue.
And keeping with our support of the best local artists, Calidore features Ryan Meehan, who grew up and had his early training in St. Petersburg. His parents will be in the audience Tuesday night. For tickets and more program information follow this link or call our box office at 727 822-3590.
Here’s more on this exciting young ensemble. Calidore is:
Jeffrey Myers violin
Ryan Meehan violin
Jeremy Berry viola
Estelle Choi cello
Calidore String Quartet
Described as “the epitome of confidence and finesse” (Gramophone) and “a miracle of unified thought” (La Presse, Montreal), the Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed and captivating performances. The Calidore String Quartet is currently artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University (NY) and was appointed to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two for the 2016-2019 seasons.
The Calidore String Quartet has won grand prizes in virtually all the major U.S. chamber music competitions, including the Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake, and Yellow Springs competitions and captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich International String Quartet and Hamburg International Chamber Music Competitions. The Quartet regularly performs throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has debuted in such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center and Seoul’s Kumho Arts Hall and at many festivals, including Verbier, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Rheingau, East Neuk and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Highlights of the Quartet’s 2015-16 season include their debut at Carnegie Hall, Ladies’ Morning Music Club (Montreal) and New York City Town Hall; performances of the complete Mendelssohn quartet cycle at the East Neuk Festival (Scotland); and performances of Mendelssohn’s Octet, with the Emerson Quartet, at both Princeton and Stony Brook Universities.
The Quartet’s critically acclaimed debut recording of quartets by Mendelssohn and Haydn [CD Baby 0888295213165] is followed in early 2016 with their recording of music from WWI on the Editions Hortus label.
The Calidore String Quartet’s principal mentors include Andre Roy, Günther Pichler, Arnold Steinhardt, Guillaume Sutre, David Finckel and the members of the Ebène and Emerson Quartets.
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