The Calidore String Quartet is an internationally performing classical music string quartet based in

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. The Calidore is composed of

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ists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan,

viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...

ist Jeremy Berry and cellist Estelle Choi. Formed at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in 2010, the quartet won the grand-prize in the inaugural 2016 M-Prize Competition sponsored by the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

School of Music, Theater and Dance. The $100,000 M-Prize is the largest award for chamber music in the world. In February 2016, the Calidore String Quartet was the first North American ensemble to ever be awarded a fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust based in London. Within the first two years of their formation, the Calidore won the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Coleman National Chamber Music Competition and top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich String Quartet Competition and the Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition. In 2018, the Calidore Quartet was the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The quartet was artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University from 2014 to 2016. In late 2016 they joined the roster of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program, and currently are Artists of the Society. The quartet regularly performs across North America, Europe and Asia and has appeared in Carnegie Hall,

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, Kumho Art Hall (Seoul) and in festivals including

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, Ravinia,

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, Rheingau, ,

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(New York) and

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(UK). They have released numerous critically acclaimed albums. Their debut album includes string quartets by

Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sym ...

and

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...

and was heralded as "the epitome of confidence and finesse" by '' Gramophone'' magazine. Their second album is a survey of music from World War I released on the French label Éditions Hortus. The quartet is represented worldwide by

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* {{authority control American string quartets Musical groups from New York City Colburn School alumni