Overview

Following their spectacular 2025 Festival appearance, the Galvin Cello Quartet returns for an encore performance, bringing vibrant international energy and bold artistry to the stage. Prizewinners at the Fischoff and Victor Elmaleh Competitions, the ensemble is praised for its glorious sound and for redefining the cello quartet as a dynamic force in chamber music.

"The Quartet's cellists are brilliant instrumentalists and thoughtful musicians individually, but their renditions as a group are glorious." -Arnold Steinhardt (Guarneri Quartet)

Praised as a quartet whose "cellists are brilliant instrumentalists and thoughtful musicians individually, but their renditions as a group are glorious," (Arnold Steinhardt, Guarneri String Quartet) the Galvin Cello Quartet burst onto the scene after capturing the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition. Riding on the momentum of their Fischoff success, Galvin went on to win the 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the Concert Artists Guild roster. With members from Brazil, South Korea, and the United States, 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