Cecilia String Quartet
- Public Event
| Presented By: | Caltech Committee on Institute Programs |
Min-Jeong Koh, violin
Caitlin Boyle, viola
Rebecca Wenham, cello
The program will feature works by Haydn, Lutoslawski, and Schumann.
Praised for their "extraordinary commitment and maturity" (Montreal Gazette) and "talent, passion and mastery" (Jacques Robert, JR Multimedia), the Cecilia String Quartet is one of Canada's most promising emerging ensembles today. Laureates of the 5th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, they are currently recipients of the Joseph Fisch and Joyce Axelrod String Quartet residency at San Diego State University in association with the La Jolla Music Society.
Formed at the University of Toronto in the fall of 2004, the group garnered high praise in January of 2005 with its debut performance at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, and their first season culminated in the receipt of the Felix Galimir Award for Chamber Music Excellence. Since that time, they have been invited to such prestigious festivals as the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar in New York, the Stanford Chamber Music Seminar with the St. Lawrence String Quartet in California, and the Schleswig Holstein Chamber Music Festival with the Tokyo Quartet in Germany. In addition, the quartet has worked with members of the Guarneri, Muir, Brentano, Ying, American, and Vermeer Quartets.
The Cecilia String Quartet takes its name from St.Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Members of the quartet have attended the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the HARID Conservatory of Music, and the Hochschule fur Musik und Theatre Munchen in Munich, Germany.