top of page

Prelude to Night, Modigliani Quartet

Saturday, March 29, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Modigliani Quartet

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church in Megève

From 16.00€

Chamber music in the spotlight

The second program, planned as part of PRELUDE TO THE NIGHT, highlights chamber music, performed by one of the best European quartets, for a repertoire highlighting France and Germany.

The artists of Prelude to Night, Modigliani Quartet

Modigliani Quartet

Based in Paris, the Modigliani Quartet celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023. They are regular guests at major venues around the world as well as at the most prestigious string quartet and chamber music series. In 2017, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie gave them the honor of being the first string quartet to perform on the main stage of the newly built venue. Since 2020, the quartet has been the artistic director of the “Vibre! Quatuors à Bordeaux” festival and the renowned ; the quartet also directs the Saint-Paul-de-Vence Festival that it founded. Since 2023, the Modigliani Quartet has been teaching in Paris in the first class of string quartets initiated by the Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot.

The Modigliani Quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has 13 albums in its discography to date, all of which have won awards. In 2024, its latest release, devoted to the quartets of Grieg and Smetana, was enthusiastically received by the international press. "The French members of the Modigliani Quartet infuse these highly emotional works with energy, colour and fiery passion" (Rondo, January 2024). The album was included in the coveted "bestseller" list of the German Critics' Prize.

In the 2024/2025 season, the Modigliani Quartet will devote itself to the greatest challenge any quartet faces in a career: recording all 16 of Beethoven's string quartets. Other highlights of the new season include a North American tour in October 2024, as well as concerts at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, L'Auditori in Barcelona (the only one of the Quartet Biennale), Konserthus Stockholm and Schwarzenberg's Schubertiade.

Thanks to the generosity and support of private patrons, the Modigliani Quartet has the chance to play four exceptional Italian instruments: Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1715 Stradivarius violin, Loïc Rio plays a 1780 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 Luigi Mariani viola, François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller


 

bottom of page