Quartettissimo 2018 - Das Programm

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Freitag

20:00 Quatuor Yako (France)

Quatuor Yako was founded in 2015 - the same year, the quartet entered the Lyon Conservatoire (CNSMD), where they benefited from Yovan Markovitch and Agnès Sulemadvice. They also work with Luc-Marie Aguera at Paris CRR. In 2016, they joined Christophe Poppen and Hariolf Schlichtig class at Munich Hochschule. The quartet was invited in a lot of academies such as the one of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Festival de Villecroze, where it improved with Johannes Meissl, Tim Vogler, Andras Keller, David Albermen, Isabel Charisius and members of Danel, Debussy and Modigliani quartets. In November 2015, the quartet performed at the Maison de la Dance in Lyon along with the company Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane. In March 2016, the quartet is the winner of the FNAPEC competition. Mécénat Musical Société Générale is the quartet's main sponsor. It participates in ProQuartet-CEMC professional training program since spring 2016. In November 2016, Quatuor Yako became a ProQuartet resident.

Program
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907):
String quartet in g minor Op.27 (1878)

Philip Morris Glass (1937):
String Quartet No. 2 „Company” (1984)
Composed for a dramatization of a Samuel Beckett’s novella

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937):
String quartet in F major

Samstag

20:00 Arso Quartet (Hungary)

The Alba Regia Quartet members are the Alba Regia Symphonic Orchestra leader musicians as well. The establishment of this quartet from Szekesfehervar was linked with the Alba Regia Symphonic Orchestra’s renewing in 2015. The leader of the quartet is Gabor Selmeczi, violonist, who is also the concertmaster of the ARSO. Besides, he is a regular guest artist in the Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra for more than 20 years, as well as in the Budapest Festival for 10 years. The quartet’s second violonist is Gabriella Burjan, a young artist from Szekesfehervar, and the violist is Katalin Kiss. They are both section leaders in ARSO and also guest artists in well-known Hungarian Orchestras. The cellist is Ifj. Istvan Major. He was the cellist of the Budapest MAV Orchestra for more than 10 years. Nowadays, he is the director of the Alba Regia Symphonic Orchestra.

Program
Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809):
String Quartet in D minor, Hob.III:76 (1797)

György Selmeczi (1952):
String Quartet N°3 (1876)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
String Quartet No.16, Op.135 (1826)

Sonntag

17:00 Doležal Quartet (Csehország)

The Doležal Quartet has been founded in 1972 and represent a Czech traditional school of quartet. In 2003, the former ensemble has been renewed by a new generation who made its first appaerance in the chamber series of Prague. In 2013, the ensemble made a series of masterclass in France and since then, Proquartet invites them regularly to concerts all around Europe. Doležal Quartet won many international awards, notably the Price of the Best Czech Ensemble. In 2015, the four musicians also won the prestigious award of the Czech Chamber Music Society of Czech Philarmonic.
They cooperated with many interpreters and in 2014, they released a CD of chamber music which was registered in Berlin with Blaž Šparovec (solo clarinet in Gürzenich-Orchester Köln). The quartet also made several recordings for television and radio.

Program
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945):
String quartet No. 4

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
String quartet No. 6, Op. 18

Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884):
String quartet No. 1 e-minor „From my life“