Isidore String Quartet on May 14, 2026 | UCSB Arts & Lectures

Isidore String Quartet 
- Adrian Steele, violin 
- Phoenix Avalon, violin
- Devin Moore, viola
- Joshua McClendon, cello

Sterling Elliott, cello

Program 
Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2 
Tyshawn Sorey: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes  
Schubert: String Quintet, D. 596

“Amazing… The ensemble was tight and all the playing stunning, full of clarity and nuance… Don’t pass up any chances to hear the Isidore.” Boston Musical Intelligencer

“[Elliott] is a star cellist who has risen beyond hopeful promise to astonishing maturity.” Millbrook Independent

Winners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition and 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Isidore String Quartet brings fresh insight and expressive intensity to the chamber repertoire. They’re joined by their Juilliard classmate and fellow Avery Fisher honoree Sterling Elliott, a cellist whose star power and soulful artistry have earned international acclaim. This probing program traces a path from Ligeti’s surging dissonances to Sorey’s taut, meditative soundscapes and culminates in Schubert’s luminous Cello Quintet – a masterpiece of emotional unity and complexity.