Once students, now masters

The members of the Calder Quartet, who were among the first five graduates last year of the Colburn Conservatory of Music in downtown Los Angeles, have been appointed assistant faculty members there. Their duties begin immediately.

Violinists Benjamin Jacobson and Andrew Bulbrook, violist Jonathan Moerschel and cellist Eric Beyers also recently concluded two years as the graduate quartet in residence at the Juilliard School, where they received artist diplomas.

In addition to their teaching duties and performance dates, they plan to make the first recording of Christopher Rouse’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and “Compline,” to be released in November on Koch Records.

-- Chris Pasles