Check out the recent press for the Carlsbad Music Festival

Mark Swed from the LA Times said about our performance this past Friday night at Zipper Hall: "The program closed with the Calder Quartet, which has been associated with the festival from the beginning and in an astonishingly short time has become the American string quartet to watch...Using elegant if basic electronics, Perich hooked up each of the Calder's instruments to a dinky speaker. One of the hallmarks of the Calder is the wonderful richness of its sound, here turned into beeps. But they were voluptuous beeps full of texture." The full articles are available in our Press Section!

Carlsbad Music Festival Starts on September 19!

We're excited to announce this year's Carlsbad Music Festival, beginning September 19 and going through September 28. This year will include performances by Founding Ensemble-in-Residence of the Carlsbad Music Festival, the Calder Quartet, along with Red Fish Blue Fish, Partch, and Build. Additionally, the Festival will host composers-in-residence: Fabian Svensson (winner of this year’s Composers Competition), Tristan Perich, and Festival Founder and Director, Matt McBane. There are 7 concerts in all in LA, San Diego, and Carlsbad. Come check it out! www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org

We're going to be on Morning Becomes Eclectic Today!

At 11:15am Pacific Time, we're going to be playing live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic with Airborne Toxic Event. Check it out online (www.kcrw.org) or in Los Angeles on the radio on 89.9FM

We're playing with Airborne Toxic Event!

On August 7, we're playing with indie rock band Airborne Toxic Event at the El Rey in LA. Check out upcoming performances for more details.

Cleveland Plain Dealer gives new album an "A"

The Plain Dealer says: "Ravel's String Quartet is a burst of seductive and ravishing ideas in their hands, and they treat the seven movements of Thomas Ades' enchanting "Arcadiana" with utmost clarity, color and cohesion. In Mozart's Quartet in F major, K. 590, the Calder catapult the score's invigorating material as vividly as they probe its dramatic corners. Grade: A "

Strings Magazine Likes our New Album!

They named us "Spin of the Week" and said, "There is an almost delirious display of rich coloration and complex textures that unify these three works."

We have a new album!

The cd is out and available on our website and at our performance venues. The recording is centered on Thomas Ades' "Arcadiana" and includes Ravel's "String Quartet in F" and Mozart's "Quartet in F Major."