Calidore String Quartet

{{Short description|American string quartet}}

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The Calidore String Quartet is an internationally performing classical music string quartet based in New York City. The Calidore is composed of violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist 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 School of Music, Theater and Dance.{{cite web|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151014/NEWS/151019948/um-launches-m-prize-international-chamber-music-competition |title=Crain's Detroit Business : Subscription Center |website=Crainsdetroit.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-15}} The $100,000 M-Prize is the largest award for chamber music in the world.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/arts/music/calidore-string-quartet-wins-100000-m-prize.html?_r=0|title=Calidore String Quartet Wins $100,000 M-Prize|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2016-07-15}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/2016-borletti-buitoni-trust-awards-go-to-danish-string-quartet-and-violinist-alexandra-conunova/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222115843/http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/2016-borletti-buitoni-trust-awards-go-to-danish-string-quartet-and-violinist-alexandra-conunova/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-02-22 |title=2016 Borletti-Buitoni Trust awards go to Danish String Quartet and violinist Alexandra Conunova |publisher=The Strad |date=2016-02-18 |accessdate=2016-07-15 }} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/nyregion/calidore-string-quartet-to-make-stony-brook-university-its-home.html|title=Calidore String Quartet to Make Stony Brook University Its Home|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2016-07-15}} In late 2016 they joined the roster of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program, and currently are Artists of the Society.{{cite web|url=http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/artists/artist/calidore_string_quartet |title=The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center | Artists » Calidore String Quartet |website=Chambermusicsociety.org |date= |accessdate=2016-07-15}} The quartet regularly performs across North America, Europe and Asia and has appeared in Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, Kumho Art Hall (Seoul) and in festivals including Verbier, Ravinia, Aspen, Rheingau, {{Interlanguage link|Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|de}}, Mostly Mozart (New York) and East Neuk (UK). They have released numerous critically acclaimed albums. Their debut album includes string quartets by Mendelssohn and Haydn and was heralded as "the epitome of confidence and finesse" by Gramophone magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/42762/page/5|title=Gramophone - June 2015|website=reader.exacteditions.com|access-date=2018-08-31}} 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 Opus 3 Artists.{{cite web|url=http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/calidore-string-quartet |title=Calidore String Quartet |publisher=Opus 3 Artists |accessdate=2016-07-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729061015/http://www.opus3artists.com/artists/calidore-string-quartet |archivedate=2016-07-29 }}