The Callino Quartet is an internationally successful string quartet that was formed in 1999. They regularly broadcast on Lyric FM and BBC Radio 3 and have also appeared several times on RTE television. They have toured in Norway and Holland several times and also appeared at festivals in the U.K. and Ireland, Lithuania, Italy, Czech Republic, France, The Netherlands and Canada.
The Quartet has enjoyed collaborations with such diverse artists as the Vanbrugh and Belcea String Quartets, double-bassist Edgar Meyer, pianist Barry Douglas, the Paris-Bastille Wind Octet, rock band Arcade Fire and jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. The Quartet has received several international prizes and awards including most recently second prize in the 2008 Tromp String Quartet Competition.
Earlier this year the Quartet were artists in residence at the Banff Centre in Canada after which they worked closely with the Kronos Quartet and gave their Carnegie Hall debut.
Since 2006 the Callino Quartet has held its own annual festival over the Easter weekend in Bantry House, County Cork.
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 in the late 16th century and became known as the Callino manuscript. It is now held in the library in Trinity College, Dublin.
A Place Between
Callino Quartet
"If you're someone for whom contemporary music is a dissonant turn-off, then this could be the disc that converts you. The varied programme of short, often minimalist chamber music includes premiere recordings by Knaifel, Tavener, Pärt and Silvestrov, all inspired in some way by religious or cultural encounters. Inevitably then, the music is down-tempo, but it's comtemplative rather than syrupy. It's hard to single out favourites, but soprano Patricia Rozario is at her golden-hued best in Knaifel's 'O Heavenly King', while Silvestrov's string quartet, 'Ikon', is beautifully reminiscent of 16th-century viol music." CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE
"...Tavener’s Ikon of Joy/Sorrow here receives its first recording, the drone-and-chant texture simply and movingly realized by
the Callino Quartet, while Pärt’s timeless-sounding Da pacem Domine, in a world première recording of the string quartet version, is rendered with the
same sensitivity..." INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 2009
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Veer - Ian Wilson String Quartets
Callino Quartet Riverrun RVRCD 77
Ian Wilson is the Irish composer who seems most ready to engage with
the string quartet. This new disc includes his Fourth (Veer), Fifth (
. . . wander, darkling), and Sixth (In fretta, in vento), as well as
the later Lyric Suite of "Seven Elegiac Pieces". The most impressive
work here, and the one with the longest unbroken span, is the
18-minute Fifth, a piece that is often sonically pinched and
emotionally anguished - it was written during one of the most
difficult times in the composer's life. The lashing first movement of
the Edvard Munch-inspired Fourth is like its expressive inversion. The
Sixth and the elegies are more diffuse and seem by comparison rather
less effective, even in the Callino Quartet's excellent performances.
MICHAEL DERVAN
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Performance on "The View", RTE 20/02/07
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