Dior String Quartet

Noa Sarid (violin)

Tobias Elser (violin)

Caleb Georges (viola)

Joanne Yesol Choi  (cello)

Hailing from Israel, Korea–Canada, Saint Lucia, and the USA, the Dior String Quartet is the Bronze Medalist of the 2019 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, first prize winners of the 2019 Plowman Chamber Music Competition. Formed in the fall of 2018 at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the quartet is the current Quartet-in-Residence at the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. In the summer of 2019, they attended the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University on full scholarship. Dior Quartet was selected to perform in the 2019 International Showcase at Bing Concert Hall. That summer, the ensemble also held the Fellowship String Quartet position at the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in Virginia, and participated in the McGill International String Quartet Academy (MISQA) where they got the opportunity to work with the Alban Berg, Takács, and Artemis Quartets. Dior participated in the fully sponsored residency of the 2020 Britten–Pears Young Artists Program at Snape Maltings and was in the UK for 2 weeks studying with Alasdair Tait, Isabel Charisius, Bjørg Lewis, Geoff Nuttall, and Owen Dalby. In January 2021, the Dior Quartet made its debut with the Schneider Concert Series at The New School.

Repertoire:

Preliminary: 

Haydn: String Quartet No. 59 in G minor (ʻThe Riderʼ), Hob. III:74 [Op. 74/3]

Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, BB 75 – 2. Allegro molto capriccioso

Semi-final      

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106  

Ádám Brandenburg: Distances                   

Final   

Schubert: String Quartet Movement in C minor (ʻQuartettsatzʼ), D. 703

Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, BB 75