The Callino Quartet
Wednesday September 10th at 8 p.m
Bookings at 041 9876100
The Callino Quartet is an internationally successful string quartet formed in 1999. They regularly broadcast on Lyric FM and BBC Radio 3 and have also appeared on RTE television. The Quartet performed on the soundtrack of the film Kings by Tom Collins. They have toured in Norway and Holland several times, appeared at festivals in Lithuania, Italy, Czech Republic, and performed in Canada.
The Quartet has enjoyed collaborations with such diverse artists as the Vanbrugh, Vogler and Belcea String Quartets, double-bassist Edgar Meyer, pianist Barry Douglas, the Paris-Bastille Wind Octet and jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. The Callino Quartet was awarded a Special Prize at the 2002 Paulo Borciani String Quartet Competition for their performance of Haydn and has just released a disc of Ian Wilson’s works for string quartet on commercial release by Riverrun records.
The Quartet has commissioned and premiered new works by Ian Wilson, Raymond Deane and Finnish composer Kimmo Hakola and worked closely with Edgar Meyer, Peteris Vasks and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh on their works for string quartet. Recent and forthcoming performances include appearances at the Cheltenham, Sligo New Music and Clandeboye Festivals, concert tours of Scotland as winners of the 2006 Tunnell Trust Award, concerts in Ireland and the U.K. and a Wigmore Hall debut performance. The Callino Quartet is the anchor ensemble in the Callino and Friends West Cork Music Easter Weekend which this year featured the T’ang Quartet from Singapore in the Cork School of Music Curtis Auditorium.
The Callino Quartet take their name from the Irish air ” Cailin cois tSuir a me” which means Girl by the River Suir. This song was the first Irish air to be notated and became known as the Callino manuscript. It is now kept in the library in Trinity College, Dublin.
