Join us on Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 3:00 pm to enjoy a performance by the Callisto Quartet, the fellowship quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music.
Program
The program will be announced soon.
About the Artists
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The Callisto Quartet has been praised for their “lush intensity and bravado” and the “cohesion and intonation one might expect from an ensemble twice their age” (Third Coast Review). The American/Canadian Callisto Quartet brings together four musicians who share a deep passion for bringing chamber music to audiences around the world.
Since its inception in 2016, Callisto has garnered top prizes in nearly every major international chamber music competition and has been hailed by audiences across the globe. Grand Prize winners of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Second Prize Winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Callisto Quartet has also taken home prizes from the Bordeaux, Melbourne, and Wigmore Hall competitions. They have previously held residencies at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain.
The Callisto Quartet maintains an active touring and performing schedule, which has included notable appearances in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Schneider Concert Series, Ravinia Festival, and the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival.
The Callisto Quartet is managed exclusively by Earl Blackburn of Kanzen Arts.
Gregory Lewis
Canadian-born violinist Gregory Lewis is currently studying for his doctorate with Ani Kavafian at Yale. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Colburn Academy Virtuosi, Consortium Aurora Borealis, and the University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra. Lewis has also received a number of accolades for chamber music.
Cameron Daly
Violinist Cameron Daly comes to the quartet from a two-year stint playing in the Naples Philharmonic. He has made solo appearances with the Yale Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the William-Waite Concerto Competition, and served as concertmaster of the Yale Symphony, the Yale Philharmonia, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Prior to pursuing his master’s degree in violin performance, Daly studied US-Russia relations and Soviet history at Yale.
Eva Kennedy
A founding member of the Callisto Quartet, violist Eva Kennedy has had a lifelong passion for chamber music ever since playing in her very first quartet at the age of 7 in her hometown of Worthington, Ohio. Eva holds Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Her mentors have included Deborah Price, Jeffrey Irvine, Sabine Toutain, Lynne Ramsey, and James Dunham.
Hannah Moses
Praised for her sensitivity and beauty of sound, cellist Hannah Moses has performed worldwide both as a soloist and as a founding member of the Callisto Quartet. A Cleveland native, Hannah holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where her teachers included Richard Weiss, Melissa Kraut, and Norman Fischer.