The winner of the 2013 competition is the Calidore String Quartet!

The Calidore String Quartet

On Sunday, April 28, 2013 The Calidore String Quartet took first place in the CMYS Annual Competition for Emerging Professional Ensembles.  Members Jeffrey Myers, violin, Ryan Meehan, violin, Jeremy Berry, viola, and Estelle Choi, cello, performed an outstanding program of the Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 13 (Adagio; Allegro vivace) and Adagio ma non lento), the Haydn: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 in C (Allegro and Poco Adagio), and the Hindemith: String Quartet No. 4 (Fugato; Sehr langsame Viertel and Sehr energisch).  Formed at the Colburn School conservatory of Music in 2010, the award-winning ensemble has performed recitals across the United States and Europe.

Judges for the event were Richard Waller, former principal clarinet for the Cincinnati Symphony, impresario of the Linton Chamber Series, and one of the organizers of the Aspen Festival;  Jackson Leung, D.M.A., Professor of Piano, head of the keyboard department, and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra at Wright State University; and Sujean Kim concertmaster of the Springfield Symphony, founding member of the Corigliano Quartet (past winner of the CMYS Competition), and a violinist in the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra.

Violist Jeremy Berry, violinists Ryan Meehan and Jeffrey Myers, and cellist Estelle Choi.

Their entry for CMYS included works by Mendelssohn, Hindemith, and Schubert.

Taking second place was the young and talented

playing Summer Music, Op. 31 by Samuel Barber, Gavotte et Six Doubles by J.P. Rameau and arranged by Ryohei Nakagawa, and Quintet for Winds by John Harbison.  Members of the Noctua Quintet are Kayla Burggraff, flute, Michelle Pan, oboe, Nicolas Chona, clarinet, John Turman), horn, and Tommy Morrison, bassoon.  All are students at Rice University Shepherd School of Music.

Their CMYS entry included works by Hindemith, Nielson, Harbison, and Rameau.