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(Courtesy of the Calidore String Quartet.)
Composer in Focus Salon: The Calidore String Quartet with Composer Caroline Shaw
Presented with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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The Coach Barn at Pocantico
Tickets are $16.50 and all participants must provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination.
Known as “the music of friends,” chamber music creates an intimate connection between musician and audience. The Composer in Focus Salon brings audiences into conversation with the internationally acclaimed Calidore String Quartet and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.
This unique salon-style event during the Calidore String Quartet’s residency at Pocantico will feature the Calidore performing Shaw’s composition Three Essays. The performance will be followed by a conversation with the artists moderated by Elizabeth Helgeson, Chamber Music Society’s director of artistic planning and administration. Audiences will learn how a composer’s voice develops and how a performance practice is established.
Calidore String Quartet
Violist Jeremy Berry, cellist Estelle Choi, and violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan founded the Caliore String Quartet at the Colburn School in Los Angeles in 2010. They first made international headlines as winner of the 2016 Grand Prize at the M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. The Calidore is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They also serve as directors of the Graduate String Quartet Residency at the University of Delaware.
Caroline Shaw
(Photo by Kait Moreno)
Caroline Shaw was the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices, written for her Grammy-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth. Her film scores include Erica Fae’s To Keep the Light and Josephine Decker's Madeline’s Madeline. She has produced for Kanye West (The Life of Pablo, Ye) and Nas (NASIR), among others. Caroline teaches at NYU and is a Creative Associate at the Juilliard School.
All participants must provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 (two weeks after second dose in a two-dose series, such as Pfizer or Moderna, or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson).