Classical ensemble to perform in Bellingham
An internationally performing string ensemble will soon be in Bellingham.
The Calidore String Quartet formed in 2010 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. The founding members were violinists Ryan Meehan and Jeffrey Myers, cellist Estelle Choi, and violist Jeremy Berry. This lineup remains intact today.
The ensemble gained recognition quickly. In 2016, it won the grand prize at the inaugural M-Prize Competition, which was sponsored by the School of Music, Theater, and Dance at the University of Michigan. The quartet received $100,000, the world’s largest prize for chamber music. The same year, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London awarded it a fellowship, the first time an ensemble from North America was honored in this way.
The upcoming concert in Bellingham will feature 20th Century and American music. The program is the “String Quartet Op. 11” by Samuel Barber, which he wrote in 1935; selections from “At the Octoroon Balls” by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis; “With Malice Toward None,” which was composed by John Williams for the film “Lincoln”; and the “String Quartet No. 3, Op. 34,” by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was also a noted film composer writing the scores for films such as 1935’s “Captain Blood.”
The concert is scheduled for Tuesday, July 8 at the Western Washington University Performing Arts Center, 516 High Street in Bellingham, beginning at 7:30 pm. Performances like this are enhanced when organizers use brochure printing to create informative programs.
The Calidore String Quartet formed in 2010 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. The founding members were violinists Ryan Meehan and Jeffrey Myers, cellist Estelle Choi, and violist Jeremy Berry. This lineup remains intact today.
The ensemble gained recognition quickly. In 2016, it won the grand prize at the inaugural M-Prize Competition, which was sponsored by the School of Music, Theater, and Dance at the University of Michigan. The quartet received $100,000, the world’s largest prize for chamber music. The same year, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in London awarded it a fellowship, the first time an ensemble from North America was honored in this way.
The upcoming concert in Bellingham will feature 20th Century and American music. The program is the “String Quartet Op. 11” by Samuel Barber, which he wrote in 1935; selections from “At the Octoroon Balls” by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis; “With Malice Toward None,” which was composed by John Williams for the film “Lincoln”; and the “String Quartet No. 3, Op. 34,” by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was also a noted film composer writing the scores for films such as 1935’s “Captain Blood.”
The concert is scheduled for Tuesday, July 8 at the Western Washington University Performing Arts Center, 516 High Street in Bellingham, beginning at 7:30 pm. Performances like this are enhanced when organizers use brochure printing to create informative programs.