Calidore String Quartet to Perform Works by Beethoven and Clyne at Penn State

Calidore String Quartet will perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven and contemporary composer Anna Clyne at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26 in Penn State’s School of Music Recital Hall.

The quartet’s concert will feature Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”; and his Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, with “Grosse Fuge” Op. 133. The performance also will include “Breathing Statues” by Clyne, inspired by the “Grosse Fuge” and co-commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State through its membership in the national Music Accord consortium.

Tickets—$46 for adults, $15 for University Park students, and $36 for anyone 18 and younger—are available online at cpa.psu.edu, by phone at 814-863-0255 or in person at Eisenhower Auditorium from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays.

For those who prefer to watch from home, livestream tickets are available at the same price and must be purchased by Jan. 24. Visit cpa.psu.edu/events/calidore-string-quartet-2022-virtual for details.

Within two years of its creation in 2010, Calidore String Quartet had won grand prizes in most of the major U.S. chamber music competitions. More recently, the ensemble garnered the 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.

The quartet features violinists Jeffrey Myers and Ryan Meehan, violist Jeremy Berry and cellist Estelle Choi. “Four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one,” wrote a Washington Post reviewer. “… The grateful audience left enriched and, I suspect, a little more human than it arrived.”

London-born Clyne is a Grammy-nominated “composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods,” wrote a New York Times reporter. Clyne, who lives in the United States, has collaborated with cutting-edge choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers and musicians throughout the world.

Calidore String Quartet also will perform a mini concert during Classical Coffeehouse at 8 p.m. on Jan. 27 in Hintz Family Alumni Center. Classical Coffeehouse is free for Penn State and high school students, with a $10 donation suggested for each non-student. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided in an outdoor space or as a takeaway after the program. Seating is limited.