Isidore Quartet
Thursday, February 18, 2027 7:30pm
Herbst TheatreVenue Information
$85/$75/$65
About This Performance
These dashing young artists return to SF Performances with a newly commissioned work by Billy Childs and other works the likes of which inspired Chicago Classical Review to say, “it is heartening to know that chamber music is in good hands with such gifted young ensembles as the Isidore Quartet."
Program
MOZART: Quartet in D, K 575
CHILDS: String Quartet #4 (composed for Isidore Quartet)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E-Minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Performance Sponsors
Christine Cullens and Michael Mueller
Artist Information
Performer Biography
Winners of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the New York City-based Isidore Quartet was formed in 2019 with a vision to revisit, rediscover, and reinvigorate the repertory. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘approaching the established as if it were brand new, and the new as if it were firmly established.’
The quartet began as an ensemble at the Juilliard School, and has coached with Joel Krosnick, Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Joseph Kalichstein, Roger Tapping, Misha Amory, and numerous others.
In North America, the Isidore Quartet has appeared on major series in Boston, New York, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Durham, Washington DC, Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, and has collaborated with several eminent performers including James Ehnes and Jeremy Denk. Their 2025–26 season includes performances in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Calgary, Tulsa, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, New York, Washington’s Library of Congress, plus return engagements in Montreal, Berkeley, Houston, La Jolla, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Spivey Hall in Georgia. First-time collaborations include clarinetist Anthony McGill, cellist Sterling Elliott, and the Miró Quartet.