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Since its inception in 1994, the Ceruti String Quartet has been performing, teaching, and working to build the awareness of chamber music and string playing in audiences everywhere. They have given recitals in major concert halls including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall; the Ford Center, MS; the Peace Center for the Arts, SC; and the Teatro Santa Isabel in Brazil. The quartet’s outreach work has included residencies in Tennessee, South Carolina, Michigan, Georgia, and New York. They have been featured artists in the Memphis Chamber Music Society, the Bechstein Hall Concert Series, and the Governor’s School for the Arts in SC.
Violinists Soh-Hyun Park Altino and Timothy Shiu, violist Lenny Schranze, and cellist Leonardo Altino are on the string faculty at the University of Memphis’s Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, where they teach, perform and direct the string chamber music program. The Ceruti members spend their summers as faculty members at the Masterworks Festival, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Five Seasons Music Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Center.
The educational lineage of the Ceruti Quartet comprises many of the major teachers and schools of the 20th Century. Quartet members have studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Eastman School of Music, New England Conservatory, Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Detmold Musikhöchschulle, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the Juilliard School. There they have worked with instrumentalists, Aldo Parisot, Lawrence Lesser, Suren Bagratuni, Donald Weilerstein, Violaine Melançon, Victor Danchenko, Joseph Fuchs, Heidi Castleman, Heiichiro Ohyama, Dorothy Delay, Max Aronoff, and Evelyn Jacobs.
Upcoming performances include concerts at the Goethe Institute in New York City, a new venue in Seoul, South Korea, and a recording of quartets by Debussy, Stravinsky and Brahms.
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