LA TIMES – HERO COMPLEX –‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ composer Bear McCreary scores...
As a classical-music ensemble with a sterling critical reputation and a flair for the contemporary, the Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet is used to playing at some of the most prestigious concert...
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES – Review: The L.A. Phil’s Minimalism marathon
Reich’s “Different Trains,” the composer’s autobiographical string quartet accompanied by recorded voices of train conductors from his boyhood of shuttling between the East Coast and the West at the...
View ArticleBOSTON GLOBE – Celebrity Series announces 2014-15 season
…The Juilliard String Quartet makes its first appearance since 2005, having replaced two members in the interim; they’ll play music of Webern, Berg, and Schubert (Oct. 18). Also appearing in a new...
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES – L.A. Master Chorale caps its 50th season with three new...
The Los Angeles Master Chorale ended its 50th season Sunday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the premiere of three new works commissioned for the occasion and two other recent Chorale...
View ArticleCalder Quartet Named Oberlin’s Quartet in Residence
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is pleased to announce that the Calder Quartet has been named quartet in residence for the 2014-2016 academic years. Called “superb” by the New York Times and “one of...
View ArticleSAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE – Calder-Bartók Fusion at SFJAZZ
…these performers expertly drew together folk and high art, western and eastern European identity, and especially respect for tradition with the pioneering spirit of modernism. Download PDF | Full Article
View ArticleNYC-ARTS PROFILE – Calder Quartet Performance
A performance by the Calder Quartet during the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Avery Fisher Arts Program at Lincoln Center. Watch video here.
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES – A weekend flock of L.A. string quartets
…Sunday afternoon, the Calder Quartet, formed by students at USC, begins a two-year residency at the Broad Stage, also in Santa Monica. Unlike the Formalists and Lyris, which are mainly known locally,...
View ArticleCLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER – Calder Quartet series at Transformer Station gets...
No longer is it too early to call: The next two years are going to be brilliant. Following Wednesday’s performance by the Calder Quartet at the Transformer Station, it’s safe to say Cleveland Museum of...
View ArticleTHE NEW YORK TIMES – They’re Always Borrowing His Stuff
…On Feb. 22, the Calder Quartet will juxtapose Mr. Norman’s “Sabina” and Mr. Adès’s “Arcadiana” in a concert sponsored by Carnegie Hall at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library. “Andrew really...
View ArticleTHE ARTERY – From Ravel to Adès: Calder Quartet Fuses Old With New
…For Bulbrook and violist Moerschel, playing at Jordan Hall is a homecoming of sorts. The entire quartet lives in the Los Angeles area now, but both Bulbrook and Moerschel grew up near Boston —...
View ArticleBOSTON CLASSICAL REVIEW – Calder Quartet brings clarity and commitment to...
Since its founding in the late 90s, the Calder String Quartet has developed a sterling reputation for its wide-ranging programming and championing of contemporary music. Friday night at Jordan Hall, in...
View ArticleBOSTON GLOBE – Youthful energy guides Calder Quartet’s effort
A composer doesn’t have to be young to portray the ephemeral as ecstatic, but it probably helps. That was one possible conclusion to be drawn from the Calder Quartet’s Friday concert at Jordan Hall,...
View ArticleTHE NEW YORK TIMES – Review: The Jack and the Calder Quartet in Concert
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View ArticleFEAST OF MUSIC – Calder Quartet Play Norman, Adès and Ravel at the Brooklyn...
..LA’s Calder Quartet played a free show at the Brooklyn Central Library. The concert, which was held in the library’s subterranean Dweck Center, drew a large crowd, obviously familiar with the...
View ArticleOC REGISTER – Calder Quartet shines in Adès, Britten and Beethoven
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View ArticleTHE FINANCIAL TIMES – Thomas Adès: The Twenty-fifth Hour – review
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View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES – Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance
The Calder Quartet, joined by L.A. Phil cellist Robert deMaine, deliver a performance for the ages Full Article
View ArticleBOSTON GLOBE – Calder Quartet, ‘The Twenty-Fifth Hour’
The Calder Quartet has a continuing association with British composer Thomas Adès, so while none of the pieces on this disc were commissioned for them, there could hardly be a better choice for this...
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES – L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney...
While much of the U.S. orchestra world has gathered in Cleveland this week to fret about the future and listen to Richard Strauss at the annual League of American Orchestras conference, the Los Angeles...
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