The Cecilia String Quartet in Concert
Winner of the 10th Banff Int'l String Quartet Competition is on tour
Canada's own Cecilia Quartet, winners of the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition, will perform and teach through August 7 at the Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute.
The quartet—violinists Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah, violist Caitlin Boyle, and cellist Rachel Desoer—also performs August 5 at Music Niagara chamber-music festival in Ontario.
On September 18, the quartet kicks off the fall leg of its North American tour with a concert in Lockport, Illinois.
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In December, the quartet will record the first of four albums on the Analekta label.
In recent years, the CSQ has taken on several large-scale projects aimed at musical exploration and innovation. In 2009, the ensemble embarked on BLiM (Breathing Life into Music), a month-long residency in France. The project culminated in the performance of two quartets by Théodore Dubois that had been lost for the past century, as well as a new piece written for them by American composer Liam Wade. They kicked off 2010 with another large-scale project at the Banff Center for the Arts, involving collaborations with Common Sense Composers Collective and the Afiara String Quartet, and culminating in the premiere of four brand new quartets written for them.
Most recently, the CSQ was the Resident String Quartet at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and the Resident String Quartet for the 60th anniversary season of Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. Since their inception in 2004, the quartet has held short and long term residencies at San Diego State University, Laurier University, the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the University of Toronto where the quartet was formed.
Their debut performance at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto was met with high praise, and their first season culminated in the receipt of the University of Toronto Felix Galimir Award for Chamber Music Excellence after only six months as a quartet. Since this time they have participated in many prestigious summer festivals, such as the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar in New York, the Stanford Chamber Music Seminar in California, the Deer Valley Music Festival in Utah, the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Music Festival in Germany, the Great Lakes Music Festival in Michigan, and the Aspen Music Festival's Advanced String Quartet Studies program.
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