Watch Part 1 here.īartók’s half-dozen string quartets have achieved the canonic status of modern classics. Preceding the concert, on April 18, the Quartet hosts the second of two virtual conversations on the Bartók Quartets with special guest Ara Guzelimian, Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival and former Dean and Provost of The Juilliard School. Immediately following the concert, there will be a Q&A with the Callisto Quartet, with an opportunity for the audience at home to ask questions moderated by Caramoor’s Artistic Director, Kathy Schuman. Praised for their “intensity and bravado” and the “cohesion and intonation one might expect from an ensemble twice their age” ( Third Coast Review), the Callisto Quartet was formed in 2016 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has since garnered top prizes in the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, as well as several others.įor their second performance as Caramoor’s 2020–21 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence, the Callisto completes its season-long survey of Bartók’s string quartets with the composer’s second, third, and fifth quartets.