Cavani String Quartet
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The Cavani String Quartet is an American string quartet based in Cleveland, Ohio. The group was established in 1984 and has been the Quartet-in-Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1988. The quartet is named for the 19th century violin makers Giovanni and Vincenzo Cavani.
They have collaborated for many years in special performances with the poet Mwatabu Okantah.
The quartet has recorded music by Bartók, Maurice Ravel, Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Welcher, Donald Erb, Ernest Chausson, Leo Brouwer, and Primosch for the Albany, Azica, Gasparo, New World, and Pantheon labels. They won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989.
[edit] Members
- Annie Fullard, violin
- Mari Sato, violin
- Kirsten Docter, viola
- Merry Peckham, cello
