By THIRSTY
The Calidore String Quartet has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2018), a Lincoln Center Emerging
Artist Award (2017), the Grand Prize
at the Inaugural M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition (2016), a Borletti-Buitoni
Trust Fellowship (2016) and top prizes at virtually every major American
chamber music competition, including Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake and Yellow Springs, as well as the 2012 ARD Munich
International String Quartet
Competition and Hamburg
International Chamber Music Competition.
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The
Quartet regularly performs throughout North America, Europe and Asia at venues
such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall,
Berlin Konzerthaus, Seoul’s
Kumho Arts Hall and many festivals including Verbier, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Music@Menlo, Rheingau, East Neuk
and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Highlights
of their 2017- 2018 season include debuts at the Kennedy Center and in Boston,
Philadelphia, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Barcelona, plus collaborations with the
Emerson Quartet, David Finckel and Wu Han, Alessio
Bax and violist Roberto Diaz. Other chamber
music partners have included such luminaries as Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Joshua Bell, Paul Watkins, David Shifrin and Quatuor Ebène, and their performances have been
broadcast on National Public Radio, BBC, Canadian and Korean Broadcasting
Corporations, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and German national
television as part of a documentary produced by ARD public broadcasting.
The
Quartet’s recordings include Russian
Reflections – a live concert of quartets by Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn at
the 2016 Music@Menlo Festival; Serenade – music from the Great War (Hindemith, Milhaud, Stravinsky, Jacques
de la Presle and Ernst Toch)
on the Editions Hortus label; and, Haydn
and Mendelssohn.
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Thirsty Magazine is very pleased to present this
remarkable group of musicians presenting an overview of their latest album
entitled Resilience. It is their
debut recording with Signum Classics.
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