SWCA Opens Season with the Callisto Quartet

SWCA is pleased to announce that the Callisto Quartet will open its 2025-26 concert series on September 28th.  Praised for their “tremendous variety of color" (The Strad) and the “cohesion and intonation one might expect from an ensemble twice their age” (Third Coast Review), the American-Canadian-Taiwanese Callisto Quartet brings together four musicians who share a passion for bringing chamber music to audiences around the world. Since their inception at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2016, Callisto has garnered top prizes in nearly every major international chamber music competition and has been hailed by audiences across the globe. Grand Prize winners of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Second Prize Winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the Callisto Quartet has also taken home prizes from the Bordeaux, Melbourne, and Wigmore Hall competitions. .

The Callisto Quartet maintains an active touring and performing schedule, which has included notable appearances in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Schneider Concert Series, Ravinia Festival, the Banff International String Quartet Festival, and the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival. As dedicated educators, the Callisto Quartet is deeply committed to mentoring students and connecting with audiences, having taught masterclasses at universities including Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Washington, and the University of California Santa Barbara, and served as faculty at summer festivals such as Credo Chamber Music, Bravo International Music Festival, and the Hudson Montessori Conservatory Chamber Music Intensive.

The program will include Haydn’s “Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3, "Emperor"”; Schubert’s “Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703”; and Beethoven’s “Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3”.

The concert starts at 2:00 pm at Evergreen Crossings Retirement Community, 900 Hemlock Ave, South Windsor, CT.  The concert is FREE and donations are welcomed.  Seating begins at 1:30 and is on a first-come, first-served basis.  A reception with the artist will follow the concert hosted by Evergreen Crossings Retirement Community.  

For information, call (860)-416-6920