Biography

As a founding member of the Calidore String Quartet, violist Jeremy Berry has performed across the globe at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, The Kennedy Center and Cadogan Hall for the BBC Proms Festival. Through the Bowers Program, Mr. Berry has performed regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. With the Calidore String Quartet, Mr. Berry has won grand prizes in many competitions including the M-Prize, Fischoff, Chesapeake, Coleman and Yellow Springs, as well as top prizes at the ARD Munich and Hamburg competitions. The quartet has also been a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and has been a BBC New Generation Artist making many recordings for BBC in London.

As a teacher, Mr. Berry has been a visiting artist-in-residence at University of Michigan, University of Toronto and Stonybrook University, and he is thrilled to now be associate professor of music at University of Delaware along with his quartet colleagues. Mr. Berry studied at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music with Paul Coletti, as well as the Juilliard School of Music with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Mr. Berry began the viola at age five with Elizabeth Stuen-Walker in Bellingham.​