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SAN DIEGO READER – Carlsbad Music Fest Sept. 21 – 23: Calder Quartet, Sara...
The 2012 Carlsbad Music Festival will include several locals performing, including Carlsbad natives/residents Calder Quartet, Wu Man, Sara Watkins with Sean Watkins (of local bluegrass/Americana family...
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STRAIGHT.COM – Brilliant ideas are what Vancouver’s Modulus Festival is all...
A Music on Main production. At Heritage Hall and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre from Friday to Sunday (September 28 to 30). No remaining performances I can’t imagine what the...
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CLASSICAL SONOMA – Adés’ Arcadiana Highlights Quartet Concert in Mill Valley...
The Calder Quartet saved the day Nov. 4 by stepping in at last minute to play for the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society’s second concert of this season. Originally set to appear was the Prague-based...
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – Nancarrow celebration review: buoyant
Composer Conlon Nancarrow’s rhythmic studies for player piano are mathematically intricate creations, yet they often provoke a smile – not only on account of their buoyant inventiveness, but because...
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SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE – Nancarrow’s Genius Celebrated by Other Minds
Samuel Johnson averred that love could not be “otherwise than blind” without a comparison. In a revelatory series of three concerts, Other Minds’ Charles Amirkhanian provided lovers of maverick...
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SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE – Calder Quartet to the Rescue
The Calder Quartet rode to the rescue of the San José Chamber Music Society on Monday. The ensemble previously scheduled for the society’s concert at Le Petit Trianon canceled due to a severe illness,...
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – Esa-Pekka Salonen review: powerful punch
There will be plenty of opportunities this weekend to appreciate Esa-Pekka Salonen’s gifts as a conductor in the Berkeley concerts he’s leading with the Philharmonia Orchestra. But before we get to...
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LA Times – Review: Jacaranda gives an important concert featuring Peter Eotvos
Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eotvos gives the U.S. premiere of ‘Schiller: energische Schönheit’ in a program that also includes work by Ligeti. …The precise and to-the-point Calders, who have...
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NEW YORKER – The Power of Four
…the Calder Quartet played some formidable Mozart and Beethoven… -Alex Ross Download PDF
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Sequenza21 – A Flash Flood Between the Mountains and The Deep Blue Sea
…The Calder Quartet gave three superb public performances comprised of works by Lei Liang, four Festival Composition Fellows, Mendelssohn and Ravel. When they were not rehearsing or giving chamber...
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BBC – Ron Sexsmith Forever Endeavour Review
…Produced in LA by veteran helmsman Mitchell Froom and featuring a cast of stellar players, including sometime Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, pedal steel nabob Greg Leisz and LA string players the...
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THE INDEPENDENT – Album: Messaien/Saariaho, The Edge of Light – Gloria...
A third composer hovers, ghost-like, in pianist Cheng’s beguiling recital with the Calder Quartet… Download PDF | Full Article
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WQXR – Gloria Cheng and Calder Quartet Bring Messiaen and Saariaho to Light
On their new CD, “The Edge of Light,” the wildly adventurous West Coast keyboard virtuoso Gloria Cheng and the even wilder Calder Quartet help to contextualize Olivier Messiaen’s titanic legacy by...
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NEWSREVIEW – Pitch perfect: Quartet’s mixture of contemporary and classic...
…the four players so accurately and appropriately immersed themselves in the Beethoven piece that if one had not heard the modern music that came before on the night’s program, one would have guessed...
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THE GUARDIAN – Iva Bittová: ‘My intuition works very well’
Iva Bittová cuts a glamorous figure. Reclining on a sofa resplendent in a yellow dress she has knitted herself, she greets the Guardian with a throaty “Hello darling!” Her voice is one of the many...
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NEW ZEALAND HERALD – Gloria Cheng: The Edge of Light
I first reviewed American pianist Gloria Cheng in these pages more than a decade ago. The occasion was her second album, Piano Dance, an exhilaratingly eclectic collection of 20th century dances,...
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – Album review: Gloria Cheng, ‘Edge of Light’
The world of contemporary keyboard music has few champions as valiant and sensitive as the Los Angeles pianist Gloria Cheng, whose playing combines technical fervor with a wonderful mastery of color...
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LA TIMES – L.A. Philharmonic’s young composers program fine-tunes talent
It wasn’t B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least...
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CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER – Cleveland Orchestra, Museum of Art collaborate again...
..For the orchestra to collaborate with the Calder Quartet on a reprise is “pretty courageous,” said Riley, composer of “In C,” by phone from his home in Northern California. “I imagine it’s going to...
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