"Cecilia :Excellent.
During this concert, we are acquainted with a very serious and a tremendously coherent ensemble whose astounding complicity, tuning, ideas, and focus capture the audience."
Claude Gingras
(La Presse Montréal)
Robert Everett-Green
(The Globe and Mail)
"Their Shostakovich (the Ninth Quartet, Op.117) was harrowing, with the pizzicato chords of the fourth movement zinging like electrical shocks and the recitative-like passages crying out from the depths of the soul..."
Tamara Bernstein
(La Scena Musicale)
John Fleming
(St Petersburg Times)
"Right from the start of Beethoven's fiery Quartet Op.59 No.2, we heard a passionate tone and sure sense of timing... the four players found a competitive style perfectly attuned to the music."
Arthur Kaptainis
(Montréal Gazette)
"Their Schumann (String Quartet in A Op.41 No.3) was a romantic tapestry spun out with equal parts of intensity and lyricism."
Lawrence B. Johnson
(The Detroit News)
"There was no want of energy or musicality. Technical values like exactness of ensemble, balance and intonation were admirable, if not entirely unblemished. The Cecilias evinced an excellent understanding of the composer's thought world... It was a stunning performance by a quartet of great expectations."
Richard Todd
(The Ottawa Citizen)
May 16, 2010
The Cecilia Quartet has been awarded 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.
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April 8, 2010
Check out new sound clips on our Music page.
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Dec 30, 2009
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Oct 20, 2009
Cecilia Quartet to perform on November 4 for La Musique sur un Plateau at the Jeunnesses Musicales du Canada House in Montréal. More information can be found at the JMC site or by calling 514-845-4108 ext. 221.
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October 9, 2009
The Cecilia Quartet of the Schulich School of Music is the Resident Quartet of Jeunesses Musicales du Canada for their 60th anniversary season.
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September 24, 2009
Min-Jeong Koh has won the use of the 1767 Joannes Baptista Guadagnini violin from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank. She and the quartet would like to thank the anonymous donor and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.
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July 24, 2009
The Cecilia String Quartet is now based in Montréal, where they will be the Resident String Quartet at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University for 2009-2010. There they will be pursuing Graduate Diplomas under the guidance of Prof. André Roy.
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April 4, 2009
Visit our Music page to listen to sound clips.
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Feb 22, 2009
We are very grateful to the ACCR and ProQuartet for generously supporting our Odyssée Residency Project, Breathing Life into Music (BLiM). Check back for more updates about this project.