VC LIVE | Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents The Calder Quartet

Tune in here on Monday, July 31 at 7:30 PM(ET) for an exciting concert featuring works written by Ades, Boccherini, and Beethoven

We're coming at you live from the Bowdoin International Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class education and performances. Each summer, 250 students from more than 20 countries and nearly every state attend the festival to study with distinguished faculty and guest artists.

This concert features the Calder Quartet presenting works by Thomas Ades, Luigi Boccherini, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Calder Quartet:

Benjamin Jacobson, Tereza Stanislav, violin • Jonathan Moerschel, viola • Eric Byers, cello 

Program:

THOMAS ADES (b. 1971)
Arcadiana 

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743–1805)
String Quintet in C Major, Op. 28, No. 4 

Edward Arron, cello

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 

About the Calder Quartet:

Winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, they are widely known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of today’s best emerging composers. In addition to performances of the complete Beethoven and Bartok quartets, the Calder Quartet’s dedication to commissioning new works has given rise to premieres of dozens of string quartets by established and up-and-coming composers including Peter Eötvös, Andrew Norman, Christopher Rouse, Ted Hearne and Christopher Cerrone. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet’s desire to bring immediacy and context to the works they perform creates an artfully crafted musical experience.

The quartet has signed an exclusive, multi-disc record deal with Pentatone records. Their debut recording features the music of Beethoven and Swedish composer Anders Hillborg. Previously the quartet has appeared on Signum Classics, BMC records, Bridge Records and E1 recording the quartets of Peter Eötvös with Audrey Luna, Thomas Adès’ chamber music with the composer at the piano, early works of Terry Riley, the chamber music of Christopher Rouse, Mozart Piano concertos with Anne-Marie McDermott, and Ravel and Mozart quartets.

As a side project, the quartet has collaborated with acts such as Andrew WK, Lord Huron, Vampire Weekend, and The National. Television appearances include the Late Show with David Letterman, Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as well as radio appearances on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, Performance Today, WQXR New York, KUSC Los Angeles, Colorado Public Radio, and NPR.