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Cecilia String Quartet

Canada

First Prize Winner

Cecilia String Quartet

Min-Jeong Koh, violin
Sarah Nematallah, violin
Caitlin Boyle, viola
Rebecca Wenham, cello

After their win at BISQC, the Cecilia Quartet changed cellists.
A current biography is available.

The Cecilia String Quartet is currently the resident string quartet at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and are pursuing Graduate Diplomas under the guidance of André Roy.  They are also quartet in residence of Jeunesses Musicales du Canada for their 60th Anniversary Season.  Receiving the Prix de la Sacem for the best performance of the commissioned work by Gilbert Amy at the 2010 Concours International de Quatuor à Cordes de Bordeaux, the Cecilia String Quartet also won first prize and the Melpomene prize at the 2008 Rutenberg Competition held at the University of South Florida, second prize at the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and were winners of the 2007 Galaxie Rising Stars award in Canada.

The Cecilia String Quartet has performed at Music Toronto, La Jolla Music Society in San Diego, ProQuartet in Paris, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival.  They have also toured Ontario, Québec and British Columbia with Jeunesses Musicales Canada on their Desjardins Concert Series.  Committed to teaching and outreach, they have taught and performed at the Austin Chamber Music Festival in Texas and at QuartetFest at Laurier University in Waterloo, and has presented educational programs for elementary and high schools across the USA, Canada, and France.

Most recently, the quartet was the Joseph Fisch and Joyce Axelrod Resident String Quartet at San Diego State University in association with the La Jolla Music Society.  Since their inception in 2004, the quartet has held residencies at Laurier University, the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and the University of Toronto where the quartet was formed.  Their debut performance at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto was met with high praise, and their first season culminated in the receipt of the Felix Galimir Award for Chamber Music Excellence after only six months as a quartet.  Since this time they have participated in many prestigious summer festivals, such as the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar in New York, the Stanford Chamber Music Seminar in California, the Deer Valley Music Festival in Utah, the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Music Festival in Germay, the Great Lakes Music Festival in Michigan, and the Aspen Music Festival’s Advanced String Quartet Studies program.

The Cecilia String Quartet takes its name from St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music.  Min-Jeong Koh currently plays on the circa 1767 Joannes Baptista Guadagnini violin on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts and would like to thank the anonymous donor and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.

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2010 BISQC Quartets