MADELINE ISLAND CHAMBER MUSIC EMERGING ARTISTS QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE: CANDIDE QUARTET

The Candide Quartet was formed in 2023 by Juilliard undergraduate students Chili Ekman (violin), Henry Rogers (violin), Pearl de la Motte (viola), and Vanny Hu (cello). Two of the members grew up in California; Chili is a Berkeley native, and Pearl spent time in both San Diego and San Francisco. Vanny is from Stratford, Canada, and Henry is from Princeton, New Jersey. Before their formation as a quartet, they individually spent recent summers at the Aspen Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, and Toronto Summer Chamber Festival. During their first year together, many esteemed musicians have coached and mentored them, including David Finckel, Daniel Phillips, Paul Neubauer, Robert Levin, Joseph Lin, and Brian Zeger. The Quartet actively takes on performance opportunities and outreach events in New York City. In March, they worked with the Dvorak American Heritage Association to perform a concert at the Bohemian National Hall honoring Czech composer Bedrich Smetana’s 200th birthday. In July, the Quartet studied in the Fellowship String Quartet Program at Madeline Island Chamber Music in Wisconsin. We are thrilled to welcome them to MacPhail as part of this fellowship.

Program

Mozart String Quartet No. 23 in F major

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Major

Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ("From My Life")