Abeo Quartet

The Abeo Quartet joins our Fortas season as part of the Kennedy Center’s Green Shoots initiative, created last season by the late Joseph “Yossi” Kalichstein. Formed at Juilliard in 2018, the ensemble is the first graduate string quartet in residence at the University of Delaware, under the mentorship of Calidore String Quartet. The name Abeo (“ah-bey-oh”)—an expression of joy in a Nigerian dialect—was chosen to reflect the group’s love for playin...