Ryan Meehan, violin

Hometown: Winnetka, IL

Meet Ryan

Ryan performed on Show 164 in 2007, when he was 17, in August 2007. He also performed as a a member of the Ridere String Quartet on From the Top Live at Carnegie Hall on PBS. He returned to From the Top in 2021 to appear on Where Are They Now? Highlight Show 32 with the Calidore String Quartet.

Violinist Ryan Meehan is a member of the Calidore String Quartet. Recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Calidore String Quartet first made international headlines as winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize of the 2016 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. The quartet was the first North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). Learn more about the Calidore String Quartet at www.calidorestringquartet.com.

Listen to Ryan

Highlight Show 32
String Quartet No. 3, Op.41 (IV. Finale) by Robert Schumann

Show 164, Aspen, CO
Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, Mvt 1