Annie Fullard and Susan Waterbury, violins

Erika Eckert, viola

Merry Peckham, cello

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The Cavani String Quartet was named the winner of the 1989 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. They have been described by the Washington Post as "completely engrossing, powerful and elegant."

The Quartet, formed in 1984 became the Quartet-in-Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1988. In their 30 plus years as a quartet, they have garnered recognition that also includes Ohio Governors Award for the Arts, Music America's Young Artists of the Year, the Cleveland Quartet Award, ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, two time winner of the Guarneri Quartet Award Artistic Excellence, and recipients of ten Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Grants.

The Cavani String Quartet has toured throughout all fifty states, and internationally, performing at some of the worlds most prestigious festivals, including The Perlman Music Program, The New World Symphony, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Kniesel Hall, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Madeline Island, Chautauqua Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Encore Chamber Music, The Ijsbreker series in Amsterdam and Pro Quartet, France.

The Quartet has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today and St Paul Sunday Morning. The Cavani Quartet's discography includes works by Beethoven, Ravel, Bartok, Dvoarak, Schumann, Brahms, Shostakovich, Donald Erb, Chausson, Brouwer and Primosch. The Cavani Quartet has commissioned, premiered and performed the music of more than thirty living composers, including Josh Henderson, Joan Tower, Donald Erb and Margaret Brouwer, and collaborated with the artists including Alisa Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Sergei Babayan, Jaime Laredo, Joseph Kalichstein, Sharon Robinson, Kim Kashkashian as well as members of the Cleveland,Takacs, Juilliard, Tokyo, Ying, Emerson, Cleveland, St Lawrence, Amadeus and Guarneri Quartets.

For more than 30 years, the Cavani String Quartet served as faculty Artists- in -Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, serving until 2018 where they inaugurated nationally acclaimed programs for student ensembles devoted to the serious study of chamber music.  The Quartet has served as Visiting Artists at The University of Texas, Austin, The University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, The University of California, Riverside, The McDuffie Center for Strings, and The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program. The Quartet has been on the Advisory Board of Amateur Chamber Music Players and currently serves on the Honorary Board of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and was honored to participate in The Violins of Hope Project. The Cavani String Quartet serves as Artistic Directors of Arts Renaissance Tremont.

The Cavani String Quartet is named for 19th century violin makers Giovanni and Vincenzo Cavani.

As part of their Naumburg Award the Cavani String Quartet was awarded a commissioned work, Donald Erb's String Quartet No. 2, which received its world premiere on the Cavani's Naumburg concert on March 19, 1990 in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.

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Naumburg Concert, March 19, 1990, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

Cavani String Quartet -- Annie Fullard and Susan Waterbury, violins; Erika Eckert, viola and Merry Peckham cello

Program

Schubert: Quartet in E-flat, Op. 125

Doanld Erb: String Quartet No. 2, World premiere, Naumburg commission

Dvorak: Quartet in F Major, Op. 96. "American"

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The Cavani String Quartet's current members, pictured above, include Kyle Price, cello; Annie Fullard, violin; Catherine Cosbey, violin and Samuel Rosenthal, viola

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