Back in 2010, four students at a music conservatory in LA joined forces to create the Calidore String Quartet, and they’ve been selling out prestigious concert halls around the world ever since. Tonight this smoking-hot chamber group finds itself in town with cello, viola, and fiddles in hand, primed to illuminate the lives of listeners with masterpieces by Haydn and Mendelssohn—two brilliant composers with the sunniest of musical dispositions. If modern sounds are more your thing, the evening’s stellar set list also includes the Pacific Northwest premiere of a 2016 work by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Caroline Shaw. If you’re lucky enough to attend, please prepare for a night that spans centuries, breaks hearts, and blows minds. BRIAN HORAY