Mendelssohn: Quartet in B minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 3
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Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on July 10, 2022.
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Wu Qian
Jeremy Berry
Estelle Choi
Winner of a 2016 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, as well as classical music’s bright young star award for 2007 by The Independent, pianist Wu Qian has maintained a busy international career for over a decade. She has appeared as soloist in many international venues including the Wigmore, Royal Festival, and Bridgewater halls in the UK, City Hall in Hong Kong, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. As a soloist she has appeared with the Konzerthaus Orchester in Berlin, the Brussels Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, I Virtuosi Italiani, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the Munich Symphoniker. She won first prize in the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition and the Kommerzbank Piano Trio competition in Frankfurt, and has received numerous other awards. Appearances this season include performances in the UK, Germany, USA, Korea, Australia, Spain, and The Netherlands and collaborations with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Leticia Moreno, Cho-Liang Lin, Clive Greensmith, and Wu Han. Her debut recording of Schumann, Liszt, and Alexander Prior was met with universal critical acclaim. She is a founding member of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio with which, in addition to performing in major concert halls and series around the world, she has released two recordings on the BIS label and also a disc of Brahms and Schubert on the Wigmore Live Label. Wu Qian an alum of The Bowers Program.
As a founding member of the Calidore String Quartet, violist Jeremy Berry has performed across the globe at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Cadogan Hall for the BBC Proms Festival. With the Calidore String Quartet, he has won grand prizes in many competitions including the M-Prize, Fischoff, Chesapeake, Coleman, and Yellow Springs, as well as top prizes at the ARD Munich and Hamburg competitions. The quartet has also been a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and has been a BBC New Generation Artist, making many recordings for BBC in London.
As a teacher, he has been a visiting artist-in-residence at University of Michigan, University of Toronto, and Stonybrook University, and is currently associate professor of music at the University of Delaware along with his quartet colleagues. He studied at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music with Paul Coletti, as well as the Juilliard School with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Mr. Berry began the viola at age five with Elizabeth Stuen-Walker in Bellingham, Washington.
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, cellist Estelle Choi began her music studies at the age of five. She garnered top prizes as a soloist and as a chamber musician in the Canadian Music Competition, the Alberta Music Festival, and the Calgary Concerto Competition. She has gained international recognition as a founding member of the Calidore String Quartet, an ensemble celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2020. Praised by the New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct” and by the Los Angeles Times for its balance of “intellect and expression,” the Calidore made international headlines when they won the Grand Prize of the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. As a member of the Calidore, Ms. Choi is an Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, BBC 3 New Generation Artist, recipient of the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist award, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust recipient. The Calidore recently completed their third year as members of CMS’s Bowers Program. Internationally, Ms. Choi was a prize winner in the ARD Munich competition as well as the Hamburg Chamber Music competition. She studied with John Kadz for 13 years and went on to work with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music and Ronald Leonard at the Colburn Conservatory. She holds a bachelor’s degree and artist diploma from the Colburn Conservatory and a masters from the Yale School of Music. She teaches and performs at the University of Delaware and University of Toronto.