Calidore String Quartet

World Premiere – String Quartet No. 3 by Han Lash commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for our Chamber Series.  The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary voices like György Kurtág, Jörg Widmann, and Caroline Shaw.

The four musicians are confirmed millennials who play with fresh intimacy for 21st Century audiences. The ensemble was barely launched from its 2010 founding at the Colburn School in Los Angeles before the accolades started to roll in – within two years, the quartet won grand prizes in virtually all the major US chamber music competitions and then made international headlines as the winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize of the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition.

Mentored by some of the most revered members of the international chamber music scene (including the beloved Emerson String Quartet), the Calidore has released multiple critically acclaimed recordings and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

As it seems they do with each visit, the Calidore’s performance at Segerstrom Center will mark the world premiere of the String Quartet No. 3 by Han Lash commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for our Chamber Series.

“Four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one” – The Washington Post

“a major new presence on the chamber music scene” – All Music