Melbourne International Arts Festival

Melbourne, Australia

Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Series

Tucson, AZ

Phoenix Chamber Music Society

Phoenix, AZ

New Calder Quartet Album! Never Before Recorded or Released Works by Terry Riley

Today, June 24, 2010, on Terry Riley's 75th birthday, we are releasing a recording of two of his very earliest works that have never been recorded or released prior to this. Beginning today, "Terry Riley - Two Early Works," will be available for 75 days as a "pay-what-you-want" digital download at: calderquartet.bandcamp.com. Additionally, we collaborated with artist Dave Muller to create 75 one-of-a-kind, limited-edition vinyl records. These will be available to order for $75 starting Thursday, June 24, 2010 at the above website.

Check out our New York Times Review

Go to our press section and check out the New York Times review that ran yesterday for our concert as part of the MATA festival. The NYT said: "Tuesday’s concert by the superb Calder Quartet showed that the time-honored string quartet format still provides fertile ground for innovation and surprise in the hands of imaginative, skillful creators."

April Concerts

We're back and recovered from Big Ears and our Bartok cycle (the second concert of which we performed last Thursday) and are now getting ready for all of our other April performances. Next week, we'll be in San Diego for 2 concerts; followed by another trip east for 2 concerts in the NY area including a performance at the MATA Festival in NYC. When we get back, we will have our annual FREE spring concert at Zipper Hall on April 23rd followed by a performance at the Orange County Performing Arts Center with pianist Gloria Cheng on April 29th. Hope you can make one of these concerts!