Galvin Cello Quartet

July 9, 2025, 12:15 pm

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Galvin Cello Quartet
Galvin Cello Quartet: SiHao He, Sydney Lee, Luiz Fernando Venturelli, Haddon Kay (Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography)

The Galvin Cello Quartet perform works by Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carlos Gardel, Modest Mussorgsky, and André Mehmari, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Composed of members from Brazil, South Korea, and the United States, the Galvin Cello Quartet burst onto the scene after capturing the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition, followed by winning the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joining the Concert Artists Guild roster. The Quartet takes its name from the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where three of its members – Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, and Luiz Fernando Venturelli – met as students in the studio of acclaimed pedagogue Hans Jørgen Jensen. In June of 2024, the Quartet welcomed James Baik, another former student of Jensen, as their newest member.

 

Playlist

Antonio Vivaldi; arr. James Barralet: Summer from The Four Seasons

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; arr. Valter Despali: Sonata in D Major, K. 381

Carlos Gardel; arr. James Barralet: Por Una Cabeza

Modest Mussorgsky; arr. Blaise Dejardin: Selections from Pictures at an Exhibition

André Mehmari: Forrobodó