Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3, Hob. III, No. 33:
- Allegro con spirito
- Menuetto: Allegretto
- Poco adagio
- Finale: Allegro di molto
- Ergo String Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Piano Quartet in G Minor, KV. 478:
- Allegro
- Andante
- Rondo: Allegro moderato
- Silhouettes Ensemble
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet in B Major, Op. 18, No. 6:
- Allegro con brio
- Adagio ma non troppo
- Scherzo: Allegro
- La Malinconia: Adagio - Allegretto quasi allegro
- Echos Quartet
About
Ergo String Quartet
- Brage Sæbø (violin)
- Brage Blix (violin)
- Stinius Maurstad (viola)
- Bjørn Sanders (cello)
Ergo String Quartet is a young, aspiring and award-winning ensemble from Norway. They started originally as a trio in 2011, but after winning their class of ensembles in the National Music Competition for Youth, they moved on and started playing the wonderful string quartet repertoire. During their time as a quartet and trio, they have won many national competitions, notably the Sparre Olsen Competition and two first prizes as a quartet in the National Music Competition for Youth. In 2013, they also won the final, being nominated to Musician of the Year. The ensemble has been playing with various renowned chamber musicians from Norway, England and Austria, notably Are Sandbakken and Geir Inge Lotsberg (Oslo String Quartet), Johannes Meissl, Tim Frederiksen, Hatto Beyerle, Patrick Jüdt, and Corina Belcea. They have also played in several national and international concerts: chamber music concert in the Norwegian National Opera; Malta International Music Festival; European Concert in Helsinki, Finland (Temppeliaukion kirkko); Oslo Quartet Series; Horten Chamber Music festival and Trondheim Chamber Music Festival.
Silhouettes Ensemble
- Kristiyan Kaloyanov (clarinet)
- Lilia Jekova (piano)
- Kalina Miteva (violin)
- Gabriela Kaloyanova (cello)
The Chamber Ensemble “Silhouettes” got its name during the summer of 2012. The musicians graduated from the National Academy of Music (Sofia), in the class of Prof. Ventseslav Nikolov. The quartet has participated in concerts at the Art Salon Festival in the National Palace of Culture; Bulgarian national radio; Chamber Hall Bulgaria; Bulgarian Cultural Institute (Budapest); Austrian Music Weeks, March Music Days (Ruse), and K&K Festival, Austria. The musicians are twice scholarship students of the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (ISA 2012, 2013), where they won the Special Award (Förderpreis) of ISA13. They also studied with Prof. Saschko Gawriloff at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Masterclasses in Lübeck, Germany (2015). From 2015 - 2017 the Silhouettes Quartet was one of the initiators of the Sofia Chamber Music Festival Agitato – a forum entirely dedicated to chamber music. At the invitation of the Bulgarian national radio in 2018, their concert represented Bulgaria on The Euro-Radio Christmas Music Day, broadcast all over Europe, USA and Canada.
Echos String Quartet
- Andrea Maffolini (violin)
- Ida Di Vita (violin)
- Giorgia Lenzo (viola)
- Martino Maina (cello)
Echos String Quartet was born in 2013 at the Conservatorio G. Verdi of Turin. They are the winners of Premio Abbiati Piero Farulli 2017, the competition most recognised by Italian music critics. Thanks to the inspiration of Antonio Valentino and Claudia Ravetto - two musicians who have spent their life in chamber music – the ensemble has developed in Turin, exploring the string quartet repertoire. Two of the most significant experiences of the group have been the meeting with András Schiff and the collaboration with M. Bruno Giuranna, performing Brahms’ string quintet Op. 111 after a one-week masterclass. They were also guests in the Quirino Principe Conference about his essay “I quartetti di Beethoven,” playing Beethoven’s quartet Op. 18 no. 1. In 2015, Echos Quartet began studying with Quartetto di Cremona in Accademia Stauffer. They have also improved themselves through the teachings of Adrian Pinzaru, first violinist of the Delian Quartet. They study at the Accademia di Musica in Fiesole with Antonello Farulli, Miguel da Silva, Andrea Nannoni, Belcea Quartet and Cristoph Giovaninetti. The quartet has had concerts in some of the most important Italian musical societies, including Società del Quartetto di Milano, Unione Musicale di Torino, Filarmonica Laudamo di Messina, MiTo Settembre Musica, Casa della Musica di Arezzo and others. They have been invited to the festivals Quatuors à Cordes en Pays de Fayence and Quatuors à Bordeaux as the only Italian quartet, following masterclasses by Alain Meunier, Luc-Marie Aguera and Prazak Quartet, as well as performing in concerts. They have had masterclasses and lessons with Lukas Hagen, Oliver Wille, András Schiff, Quartetto di Cremona, Ezio Bosso and Simon Rowland Jones, and they have recently become an ECMA group - hence will they have the possibility of following international teachers all over the Europe. The Quartet was chosen to participate in the Le Dimore del Quartetto project with the collaboration of ADSI.