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The Calidore Quartet: scaling the summit

2025-10-17T08:50:00

Calidore Quartet_023_Marco Borggreve

Having completed the epic task of recording all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the members of the Calidore Quartet speak to Thomas May about their 15‑year journey from Colburn classmates to international acclaim

What became a world-class quartet has its origins in rivalry, when two of the Calidore Quartet’s future members first faced each other across the competition stage as teenagers. ‘We were very fierce competitors,’ violinist Jeffrey Myers remembers of meeting fellow violinist Ryan Meehan in 2007 at the Fischoff (Indiana) and Saint Paul (Minnesota) chamber music competitions, where they played in different ensembles…

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