Taking its name from St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, the Cecilia String Quartet continues to win praise following its 2010 First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. "The balance between expressiveness and interplay was almost dauntingly perfect," wrote the Berliner Zeitung after a performance in the Konzerthaus Berlin. European tours have taken the four Toronto-based Canadian musicians to the Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal (Amsterdam), Beethoven-Haus (Bonn) and Wigmore Hall (London).
The CSQ performs for leading presenters in both Canada and the United States and continues to tour Canada with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. It was a prize-winner at string quartet competitions in Bordeaux (2010) and Osaka (2008). Its concert recordings have been broadcast on more than a dozen international public radio networks. Currently, Quartet Fellows at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the musicians have also held teaching duties at the Austin Chamber Music Festival (Texas), San Diego State University (California), McGill University (Quebec), QuartetFest at Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario), and Indiana Summer String Academy. They have presented educational programs for elementary and high schools across Canada, the USA, Italy, and France. In 2009 they created BLiM (Breathing Life into Music), a month-long residency in France and in 2010 collaborated with the Afiara String Quartet in premièring and recording compositions by eight composers of the Common Sense Composers' Collective at the Banff Centre.
Min-Jeong Koh currently plays on the ca. 1767 Joannes Baptista Guadagnini violin on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts and an anonymous donor. Sarah Nematallah plays on the 1851 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume violin on loan from an anonymous donor. The quartet would like to thank the anonymous donors and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.
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