In 2017, the Banff International String Quartet Festival commenced in non-competition years. Led by Director of the Banff International String Quartet Competition Barry Shiffman, the festival features competition alumni alongside special guests exploring repertoire from across the centuries.

Banff International String Quartet Festival

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Virtuoso harpist Bridget Kibbey and the Calidore String Quartet perform a haunting musical adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death with narrator Mervon Mehta, alongside works by Bach, Debussy, Fauré, and more.

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Bridget Kibbey with the Calidore String Quartet and Mervon Mehta, narrator

The Royal Conservatory of Music

America/Beautiful is a project by pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on “America the Beautiful.”

Kwon's hope is to paint a sonic picture of her adopted country in all of its sprawling complexity, and ultimately try to find the beauty at the core of the American experiment and its credo of e pluribus unum (out of many, one).

America / Beautiful: Min Kwon piano

Aspen Meadows Resort

America/Beautiful: Min Kwon piano

Maestro Măcelaru kicks off the 61st season with an evening of West Coast premieres by composers Sarah Kirkland Snider, Jennifer Higdon, Sebastian Currier, and Bora Yoon.

Sebastian Currier

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 17, 2025

Sonic Spectrum IV · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Past events

Aug 30 - Sep 1, 2024

Banff International String Quartet Festival · Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Jan 21, 2024

Bridget Kibbey with the Calidore String Quartet and Mervon Mehta, narrator · The Royal Conservatory of Music

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