BBC Music Magazine has applauded Le Consort performances as “ravishing, exhilarating, and uniquely beautiful.” In 2017, just a year after its founding, the ensemble won both First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Loire Valley International Early Music Competition. Its mission is to illuminate compelling musical personalities of chamber music from the 17th and … Continue reading Le Consort →

Founded in 1997 at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid, Cuarteto Casals is quartet in residence at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag and at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, where all four members reside. Since winning First Prizes at the London and Brahms-Hamburg competitions, the quartet has been a repeated guest … Continue reading Cuarteto Casals →

The passion of the Calder Quartet was apparent in 2002 when it won the Coleman Competition Saunderson Prize, and again with the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the quartet’s desire to bring immediacy and context to performances creates artfully crafted musical experiences. Formed at USC’s Thornton School of … Continue reading Calder Quartet →

Praised for their warm sound and powerful stage presence, the Esmé Quartet was formed in 2016 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Germany by four musicians who were already friends and shared common interests and passions in music, the arts, and life. In 2018 the quartet won the first prize as well … Continue reading Esmé Quartet →

The Poulenc Trio has earned critical acclaim over its 20-year history, with the New York Times praising their “elegant rendition” of Piazzolla’s tangos and the Washington Post commending them for honoring their namesake with an “intriguing and beautifully played program” that exuded “convincing elegance, near effortless lightness, and grace.” Pianist Irina Kaplan Lande teaches at … Continue reading Poulenc Trio with Boris Allakhverdyan, clarinet →