VC LIVE | Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute Presents Beethoven Quartet Cycle IV

Tune in here on Monday, August 21st at 7:00 PM (ET) for a chamber music concert featuring the Calidore String Quartet performing Beethoven's string quartets

We're coming to you live from Music@Menlo, an internationally acclaimed chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded by David Finckel and Wu Han as a program of Menlo School, Music@Menlo features unique immersive programming, a roster of world-class artists, and a Chamber Music Institute for emerging and pre-professional musicians.

The complete cycle of Beethoven’s 16 string quartets has been heard only once during Music@Menlo’s first two decades. Held at the 2005 festival, the concert titled Beethoven: Center of Gravity focused on a variety of his important contributions to chamber music as well as his extraordinary life story.

"It gives us great joy to once again offer our festival listeners the incomparable journey that the Beethoven quartet cycle constitutes," the Music@Menlo website reads.

Program:

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)

String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 74 Harp (1809)

String Quartet in F minor, op. 95, Serioso (1810)

String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 127 (1825)

Recipient of the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, VC Artist Calidore String Quartet first made international headlines as the winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize at the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet was the first and only North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

As a passionate supporter of music education, the Calidore String Quartet is committed to mentoring and educating young musicians, students, and audiences. In 2021, the Calidore String Quartet joined the faculty of the University of Delaware School of Music and serve as directors of the newly established Graduate String Quartet Residency. Formerly, they served as artists-in-residence at the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, and Stony Brook University.